![]() ![]() I understood that by nature he didn’t tell people what he was thinking. Fortunately we had only rarely been separated since. The first time I met Pan Chaoyuan was the first day I arrived at the factory at Sunjia Huayuan. I don’t dare speak irresponsibly and cannot speak irresponsibly.”ĭirector Kuai nodded his head repeatedly and Zhou Xuezhu, who saw the chairman nodding his head in approval, wanted to sing more words of praise for the Cultural Revolution but finally decided that that was not the time for it. The Chinese Communist Party has educated us for a long time. ![]() As to just what the Cultural Revolution is, I don’t have a clear understanding. He wrote: “We favor what unites the various Chinese nationalities and oppose that which divides the people.” The people can not be divided, much less the Chinese Communist Party itself. Mao Zedong made that very clear in the first chapter of On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People. “Therefore I believe that we can’t speak casually about a struggle within the Chinese Communist Party. Slandering the Chinese Communist Party is illegal.” To say such a thing, I believe, is to slander the Chinese Communist Party. How then would it be possible that a Communist who was formed in the long fight to gain state power be said to be a traitor. ![]() Isn’t it said that Mao Zedong Thought spreads to the four corners of the Earth and is applicable everywhere? Any kind of united front set forth by Mao Zedong is the law which even applies to people outside the Communist Party who stand united with the Party in the common struggle for the Chinese revolution. “The way I see it, there is just no way for there to be any kind of division within the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee. At first he didn’t want to speak, but after Director Kuai repeatedly insisted that he speak, he described his views this way: The next evening, when the groups continued their discussions, the topic was still: “What is your attitude towards the Cultural Revolution?” This time Director Kuai pointed to him and asked him to speak. Therefore the authorities always considered him a very dangerous man.įor example, on June 18th the previous year, Chen Li and I caused a big commotion in the Sixth Agricultural Brigade for speaking out against the Cultural Revolution and were put into isolation. He often used contradictions between the words and actions of the Chinese Communists to spread ideas that were clearly opposed to the government but in such a subtle way that it was hard to catch him at it. His precision in language was probably the result of his education and the accumulated experience of seventeen years in prison. Once he did speak about something, however, he had thought it through carefully and came right to the point. No matter what was involved, he always looked things over before he said anything. Pan Chaoyuan in his words and actions he was an old style gentleman who “shouldered the burden of upholding and spreading ancient values and civilization and would stand up for them bravely, regardless of the personal cost.” That won him special attention from Deng Yangguang who made him put under special surveillance. Neither was he one like Zhang Qingyun to “change direction as the wind blows”. He was also the oldest and, in the mind of the authorities, the most influential “historical counter-revolutionary”. Pan Chaoyuan was one of the highest ranking former mid level Nationalist Party officials there so farm headquarters paid close attention to him. The format, the slogans, and the agenda wereall just as they had been for my struggle session.ĭuring the days just after I could get up and move around were the days when Pan Chaoyuan was seized and struggled against. For a time, struggles went on all day in the courtyard starting from where the person to be struggled against was seized and taken to the temporary platform that had been put up in the courtyard. Production stopped for the struggle sessions. ![]() The struggle sessions were moved from the temporary storehouse to the courtyard. Of course the Sixth Brigade didn’t stop having struggle sessions because of my hunger strike. Previous installment: Rightist Memoir XV: The Cultural “Revolution” Comes to Yanyuan ![]()
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