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Indeed. A former colleague married a Chinese lady whose parents had suffered badly through the Cultural Revolution. He told the story, how she went off to the U
by HarryHirsch 5y ago
Indeed. A former colleague married a Chinese lady whose parents had suffered badly through the Cultural Revolution. He told the story, how she went off to the US for her PhD and how her parents drove her to the airport and told her never to return to China.
How things have changed within just a generation!
- varjag 5y agoCan you elaborate how exactly? Was your former colleague sent to kill sparrows in rice fields too?
- HarryHirsch 5y ago(It was the colleague's wife's parents.) Obviously I never got the full story, but from what I heard, the parents were academics who had their house vandalized by the Red Guards and were sent to work the countryside.
- nextaccountic 5y agoDid her parents ever leave China?
- HarryHirsch 5y agoI don't know.
- kragen 5y agoYou're confusing the Cultural Revolution with the Great Leap Forward. If you read a little bit about the Cultural Revolution the connection will be obvious.
- varjag 5y agoDeaths Hundreds of thousands to millions of civilian, Red Guards and military deaths Still not obvious.
- kragen 5y agoYou posted that response literally three minutes after my comment. That's barely enough time to read the introduction section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution. I suggest you spend more than three minutes learning about a thing before complaining that things are not obvious to you about it. Three hours would be reasonable. You could spend the first hour or two just reading that article, or start with https://www.gwern.net/reviews/Cultural-Revolution https://www.gwern.net/reviews/Cultural-Revolution, which is only about ten or twenty minutes of reading and better written, but of course much less objective. Either of those two starting points will give you plenty of links to explore. Since it's one of the most important events in human history, one with extremely important parallels to current events in the US and extremely important influences on everyone in China, and you evidently don't know anything about it at all (except that it happened in China, I guess), it will definitely be worthwhile.
- nonethewiser 5y agoI don't see an equivalent turn of events in the US. Could you share what you mean?
- kragen 5y agoNo, nothing equivalent to the Cultural Revolution has happened anywhere else ever. Hopefully it never will.
- CamperBob2 5y agoYou don't see parallels with the Pol Pot regime?
- kragen 5y agoYes, history is rich in parallels.
- frankfrankfrank 5y ago
- DenisM 5y agoYou have broken a number of guidelines in your various comments, for example: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." (this comment above) Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30116919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30116919 Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118970 Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html