What is identity?To what extent do we define

ourselves?To what extent are we defined by

others?

“Heaven and Earth are great, but greater still is the kindness of the Communist Party; father and mother are dear, but dearer still is Chairman Mao”

“universe of responsibilityLoyalty and responsibility to

government

Examples of Four Olds Do old ideas, culture, customs, or

habits have the power to hold people back?

“Though we were not facing real guns or real tanks, this battle would be even harder, because our enemies, the rotten ideas and customs we were so used to, were inside ourselves.”

Fairness in education system“I had no choice but to go.” (pg 45)How do we know if a da-zi bao is true

or not?Revolutionary moments

Tearing down sign Watching a man’s pants torn and shoes

destroyed Humiliation of Aunt Xi-wen

“The son is a hero if the father is a revolutionary. The son is a rotten egg if the father is counterrevolutionary.”

“I had always been a school leader a role model. How could I have suddenly become so bad that I needed to be remodeled thoroughly?”

How has Ji-li’s identity been changed?

“I kept away from the Red Successors, from the rest of my classmates, from everyone.”

Is isolation ever and effective or appropriate response to a problem?

School assignments“Where they burn books, they will

ultimately burn people.” Heinrich Heine

Responses to the searches?Were their human rights violated?The firing of Song Po-poHow does Ji-li feel at the end of this

chapter about the Cultural Revolution?

Look at the images and poetry around the room carefully.

Create a list of the “Top Ten Ways Chinese Youth Were Told to Think and Act During the Cultural Revolution.”

Due by Monday (period 7) or Tuesday (periods 4 8); Wednesday (period 4)

“MASTER NUCLEAR WEAPONS SCARE THE AMERICAN BARBARIANS”

Media and Propaganda – Now and Then

Neighborhood Dictatorship GroupHow were the Red Guards

influenced? What about today’s youth?

“She didn’t seem like a landlord’s wife” (121)

“I wondered what I would be doing if I had been born into a red family instead of a black one.” (126)

“Wasn’t home a private place? A place where the family could feel secure?”

Shan-shan’s mother: Who was the victim?

Examples of fear and humiliation?What aspects of Chinese society

were dividing? Uniting?

How is school different for Ji-li?How might schooling in a

dictatorship, be different than schooling in a democracy?

Ji-li and the Propoganda Group

Purpose of confessions Would you confess? “You are different from your parents. You

were born and raised in New China. You are a child of Chairman Mao. You can choose your own destiny: You can make a clean break with your parents and follow Chairman Mao, and have a bright future; or you can follow your parents, and then…you will not come to a good end.” Universe of responsibility

Class Education ExhibitionWhat is the purpose of schooling? Chang Hong and Red Guard dilemma

10. EDUCATIONAL REFORM In the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution a most important task is to transform the old educational system and the old principles and methods of teaching. In this Great Cultural Revolution, the phenomenon of our schools being dominated by bourgeois intellectuals must be completely changed. In every kind of school we must apply thoroughly the policy advanced by Comrade Mao Tse-tung of education serving proletarian politics and education being combined with productive labour, so as to enable those receiving an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and to become labourers with socialist consciousness and culture. The period of schooling should be shortened. Courses should be fewer and better. The teaching material should be thoroughly transformed, in some cases beginning with simplifying complicated material. While their main task is to study, students should also learn other things. That is to say, in addition to their studies they should also learn industrial work, farming and military affairs, and take part in the struggles of the Cultural Revolution to criticize the bourgeoisie as these struggles occur.

“Worker’s Revolt” and the influencing of public opinion

“No! I did not want to have this damned name anymore! I had has enough. All my bad luck and humiliation came from the name Jiang” (pg 212) What does Jiang mean to her? To others?

Why does she not change her name?

“ I had been seized by a new determination not to give in to peer pressure…I had to win my honor back .”(218-219)

“Now, you have to choose between two roads. You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people.” (226)

Summer in the countryside vs. the in the factory…

Why does she reject Bai Shan’s help?What was her dream?

Why would she add it to the story?

Pros and cons of Chen Ying writing the letter to the Municipal Party Committee.

Consequences for “the incriminating letter”

Regret? Chen Ying classified as a landlord’s wife

What are the implications of living in a society where the government decides who belongs and who doesn’t?

Under what conditions is it okay for a government to classify people?

“Once my life was defined by my goals…Now my life was defined by my responsibilities.”

What was Ji-li’s relationship to the Cultural Revolution? Perpetrator? Victim? Bystander?

Upstander?“I will do my job…I will”

Was the Cultural Revolution a success? What was the goal? What was the

result?

“We were all brainwashed.” (p. 265) “Without a sound legal system, a small

group or even a single person can take control of an entire country.” (p. 266)

“Those who persecuted others, even beat or tortured them, were victims too, after all (p. 270)

What was the importance of this book? What did you learn about yourself?

Ji-Jiang Presentation March 3rd at 1pmYou must create two questions which you

would like to ask. Only those selected will be allowed at the presentation. Due today.

If you did not receive the 90 points necessary to attend the presentation you may write a 3 page typed reactionary report on Red Scarf Girl focusing on Ji-li’s experiences and the Cultural Revolution. Due by February 28th