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The Cultural Revolution of China was a life changing event for the Chinese. Especially, if you were from an intellectual privileged background. Intellectual meaning well educated. Privileged meaning you were able to procure yourself a good life from your education. It was a hard life for people with this background. This was attested in the book “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie. The author himself lived through the Cultural Revolution. He was able to reflect what it was like living in China during this era in this nice little tale.
A little history of how the Cultural Revolution got started. We need to talk about how Mao Zedong came into power. Who was he and how did he became the leader of China? His family was farmers. They had enough money to send him to school. He was very interested in the working class also known as the proletariat since his family was of this class. He studied the proletariat on the belief they were the answer to the country’s......

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