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

You are the hope of the Chinese revolution. This

young man is from a university of revisionist

education. He has had revisionist education for many

years. He has his mind stuffed with personal fame

and gain. That’s capitalist and feudalist desire. That

must be denounced. You study Chinese with him.

But at same time you must pay attention to what he’ll

say and what he’ll do. Once you find he says

anything and does anything improper, denounce him

at once…”

Chairman Mao’s quotation event was a lesson to

me. I could never forget it. The students were just a

group of scoundrels. They were the local ruffians.

But they were not ordinary hoodlums. They knew

how cope with teachers. They knew how to make fun

of teachers. They knew how to hold on to a teacher’s

mistake and then denounce them. I needed to be

careful with what I said. In class, the students never

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