fixed disturbing scenes in his 我的12。我ï 1 ÇTÖ
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much chaos: screaming 处è散;
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of rifle-waving Red Guards, °h青jx的kl, 在阳光
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of the Imperial City.These, å3uæv的;头:°wqxdy,
too, are fixed deep 逃到外地,
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after an armed battle 外|¤
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我
at Xixiang Middle School, Ã她到ª«逃, 脸Z的表6。
a half lior so away, 北禁N,
a Red Guard in spectacles 成(-皇NO。
raising a rifle to shoot 我x的村qÐ
a clay pot on a telegraph pole, 的qH<。
shards scattering 文革成(q, 其
like birds °¡î x3 “¢皇x”, 成
I recall a junked lorry at the 员 ¤营大¦厂-。
roadside,
on it a corpse coated in tar,
glistening darkly
in the sun; and Mother,
wanted by a rival faction
as ringleader of the Industrial
Army, fleeing town.
Grandma feared for her from
dawn to dusk; so
many years since Grandma
died, but still
I see her face the moment she
knew mother ran.
A palace-style structure
built in imitation of Beijing’s
Forbidden City, known locally
as the “Imperial City.”
A middle school a little
over one lifrom my home in
New Railway Village.^1
A Cultural Revolution
period mass organization in
Chengdu, labeled the
“Royalists” by an opposing
faction,
178 John A. Crespi