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A 3 page review of this 1998 book by Rae Yang. Yang succeeds in demonstrating how she and many others “ate spiders” and learned lessons from cultural poison that they ingested and survived. She lays out the value of individuality and forming conclusions based on personal conviction rather than on political processes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Yang is the daughter of Chinese intellectuals who were committed to the ideology undergirding the concept of communism. Yangs parents were dedicated members of Chinas communist party following the
revolution of 1949, and they educated their daughter in the benefits they perceived in a communist lifestyle. The family eventually fled China when they were threatened because of their
higher socioeconomic class, retreating to Switzerland until they believed that returning to China would be safe. They made their return in the 1950s, when Yang already was committed to
Maoist philosophy. In her book, Yang provides a perspective on the evolution of communist ideology in China across three decades, spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. No Detail of
Life Untouched Yang (1998) demonstrates that communist indoctrination was pervasive and complete within the individual, and she uses as her example the fact
that she, at least, had no interest in natural matters of interpersonal relationships and certainly had no interest in anything associated with sexual activity.
Yang (1998) states that the Red Guards who were being reeducated to the standards of the working class were required to memorize "Serve the People," one of Chairman Maos
best-known works. In that work, Chairman Mao taught that "a revolutionary should be a pure person, a noble person, a virtuous person, a person who is free of vulgar
desires, a person who is valuable to the people" (p. 136). Yangs (1998) commitment to the Red Guard and to the communist cause
was deep, and her indoctrination into the philosophy was complete. She notes that "Sex was bourgeois ... something very dirty and ugly ... extremely dangerous ... only the bad
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