Notes
1
Many rural villages are populated mainly by families with the same surname.
2
Here the author is showing how poorly educated Yumi is; she does not write well and her accented Mandarin causes her to choose the wrong words.
3
This is how country folk might comment that the government is up and running.
4
People’s Daily, PLA Daily, and Red Flag.
5
A brand of alarm clocks that refers to a somewhat obscure slogan from the 1950s.
6
If Little Tang’s son marries Guo’s sister-in-law, she would be considered a member of an older generation than Guo’s, which would make her feel either awkward or proud.
7
Urban high school students and graduates were sent by Mao into the countryside during the Cultural Revolution to learn from the peasants. Their numbers were in the tens of millions.
8
A game resembling tag.
9
Refers to the Long March (1934-35) by Communist forces, which ended at their stronghold in Yan’an.
10
An expression denoting the ultimate humiliation.
11
A label forced on individuals who were critical of Mao’s disastrous Great Leap Forward in the 1950s.
12
A Maoist slogan that means the East (essentially China) shall prevail over the West (mainly Europe and the U.S.).
13
A common phrase often used by Chairman Mao.
14
This is not a union in the style of a workers’ organization; the responsibilities at a school are to furnish daily necessities.
15
An avant-garde poetry movement of the 1980s.
16
On December 9, 1935, high school and college students in Peiping (Beijing) staged anti-Japanese protests, which are commemorated by the holiday 12-9.
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