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A five page paper which considers life in China under the Maoist regime, as described by Liang Heng in Son of the Revolution. The paper looks at the impact which the Communist Party had on social culture, political thought and family life.
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it is, for example, possible to extrapolate a great deal of information about the power which the Communist Party of the Maoist era had on the populace as well as
the way in which such power was enforced. The student could look for example at Liang Hengs fathers comments at the beginning of Chapter 14, where he states that he
is content to return to a peasant lifestyle because its too dangerous to live by the pen. This not only tells us something about the hazards involved in being an
intellectual in Maos China (one has to assume that intellectual is liable to be equated with dissident), it also makes it clear that even people whom one might assume to
have the courage of their convictions under other circumstances have been persuaded into adopting the much more subservient role of the peasant, under the assumption that the regime knows best.
In Liang Shans case, this is of course even more ironic because he is a devoted supporter of both Mao and the Party: nothing could be further from a counter-revolutionary
intellectual. It is partly his devotion to the Party and his attempts to bring Heng up in the same idealistic mould which causes Heng so many personal conflicts throughout his
life. The impact which the Party has on Liang Hengs entire life is emphasised
throughout the book: the student could point out that the entire family is considered as rootless and socially ostracised: because of his mothers banishment and his parents divorce, the family
are not only seen as socially suspect but also politically unstable. Ironically, one can also see echoes of the old Confucian system in the way that the family deal with
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