Ten Years Of Madness Sparknotes

Ten Years of Madness by Fens Jicai is a prime example of rebelling against the rebellion. The narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) is exposed through irony and ambiguity in several personal accounts of what this terrible decade generated. The madness this movement created was engulfed by the constant confusion the populaces endured. The movement gave rise to false nationalist ideologies; in the end creating subjective damage to the masses. There are several personal accounts that are unluckily similar and therefore stand out in a peculiar fashion, creating attachment between the authors giving their accounts and what the Cultural Revolution trampled on a personal level. Three examples of this constant confusion generate a
The author is a young man 17 years of age, the year of this particular account is dated May 17, 1970. (17) By this time Chairman Mao had encouraged the youth to push his ideology, particularly the Red Guard movement a proud nationalist group of young men and women from the urbanized areas of China who acted on his ambiguous sentiments. The specific call for the youth was the momentum for detachment of urban areas and the new movement towards the countryside, “The countryside is a vast world where much can be accomplished.” (18) Not knowing who Chairman Mao is almost impossible due to the amount of exposure he is given, essentially constituting the lives of each member of the revolution through abstruse trajectories, “We were in high spirits, singing, shouting slogans, and reading Chairman Mao’s quotations all the way home.” (21) Another peculiar political propaganda led initiative was the questionable labeling of people as “Rightists” especially concerning old money in a capitalist society. This label denounces, “Senior teachers,” the idea of old heretical institutionalized people sitting at the top. (21) The most interesting section from