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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

She laughed. “How could 2 minus 5?” she

mocked and then said, “The question must be a

wrong question!”

In fact, all the worker-peasant-soldier students

were the same. They had little knowledge. They

entered the university through recommendations, not

through examinations. So long as they were

considered to be loyal to Mao Zedong and to the

Communist Party, they would be recommended to a

university.

Fat Pig was that kind of a student. But she knew

Mao Zedong thought. She knew how to rebel. Mao

Zedong taught her that everything reactionary you do

not hit will not fall. She kept it in her mind and often

condemned teachers. She hated advanced

mathematics. She hated all the courses. She

especially hated English, and so she especially hated

me.

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