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A 5 page essay that profiles Zhu Xiao Di's memoir of growing up in Communist China, focusing on how the period of the Cultural Revolution changed his family's circumstances. Zhu Xiao Di's Thirty years in a Red House is a revealing account of what it was like to grow-up during the Cultural Revolution in Communist China. Zhu's family were educated, cultured people who were idealistic about the Communist cause. However, their belief in Communism did not provide protection from the persecutions of the cultural revolution. Zhu's account shows that it was families like his, that is, the country's intellectuals, who ultimately suffered the most from the societal restructuring called the Cultural Revolution. No additional sources cited.
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in Communist China. Zhus family were educated, cultured people who were idealistic about the Communist cause. However, their belief in Communism did not provide protection from the persecutions of the
cultural revolution. Zhus account shows that it was families like his, that is, the countrys intellectuals, who ultimately suffered the most from the societal restructuring called the Cultural Revolution.
Zhu recalls how his father, at the age of sixteen, was influenced by Communism, which seemed more patriotic than the Chinese government under Chiang Kai-shek, which held that Communism had
to be eliminated before he would fight the Japanese, who invaded China in 1931. Zhu makes it clear that it was idealism and patriotism that caused his father to join
the Communist Party in 1932 (Zhu 7). Zhus family was part of the intellectual elite. In the early 1960s, when the country experienced famine, the central government issued extra
food to high-ranking officers and prominent intellectuals (Zhu 11). The author comments that just six years later the mood in the country was totally different. Zhu writes, "What a great
contrast to the anti-intellectual mood six years later" (12). As this suggests, Zhu records that the changes brought on my the Cultural Revolution happened very quickly. The middle class,
that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they nationalized some large businesses and confiscated others, but--for
a few years--small businesses, like the one that belonged to Zhus grandfather, were allowed to continue (Zhu 21). In fact, Zhu records that the new national flag has a symbolic
meaning, "...the big star symbolizes the Communist Party, and the four small ones surrounding it represent four major classes among the people" (Zhu 21). These are the workers, peasants, the
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