Son of the Revolution
The struggles that Liang Heng went through in the story "Son of the Revolution" during the reign of Mao are an incredible story of loyalty towards political Party versus family. You can slowly see how Liang Heng's absolute loyalty towards Socialism is slowly swayed through personal trauma and strife as he slowly starts to disregard what the Party says and puts him and his family first.During the time of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the party urged the masses to speak out and criticize the Party's shortcomings. Liang Heng's mother was originally skeptical about speaking out but after the urging of her superiors, she decided to speak out to please the Party. She said that her Section Head sometimes used crude language and liked to criticize people, that he should give his housekeeper a bed to sleep on instead of making her sleep on the floor, and that sometimes when it came time to give raises, the leaders didn't lead to the masses opinion (page 8). The Hundred Flower Movement then suddenly switched to the Anti-Rightist Movement in which every unit was given quota to find a certain number of rightists to meet and Liang Heng's mother name was a part of her unit quota, she later found out this label was attached to her because
During this movement, Liang Heng's father was accused of being a Capitalist newsman, opposing the Party and Socialism, opposing the revolution and using his position as a way to propagandize the Capitalist news viewpoints. This was a new lifestyle to them living in poverty with the pheasants working on a Production Team with only the barest necessities although Liang Heng' father and his second wife were able to finally unite since a transfer from her small town to a barren region was readily granted. The next movement which Liang Heng's loyalty towards his family versus the Party was tested was the Cultural Revolution. He was the only one from his factory that was accepted. As an afterthought, we also addressed a copy of the letter to Deng Xia-ping, Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (page 284). Liang Heng was such a good player he even had a chance to play for The Provincial Sports Committee and become a professional athlete. Liang Heng had not taken Judy to meet his parents and this could be disastrous, as I had not taken Judy to meet my mother. Now both of Liang Heng's parents names were tarnished and this would hang over his head and make it very difficult for him to get an education, a good job along with making him an outcast among his friends and peers. I hoped the classes would be better, but in fact only a small number proved to be of much interest. This time in China's history required you to have absolute loyalty towards the Party and even though the Party is very corrupt and often unfair with self seeking political leaders and Mao a senile, crazy leader leading movements forward that often ruined families and killed millions. Then in October 1977 came the startling news that entrance examinations were to be held again (page 265)! Liang Heng had the opportunity to go to college and was able to pass the entrance and physical exams. One of their main tasks was to put into effect Chairman Mao's call for lower and upper-middle school graduates to "go up to the mountains and down to the countryside. Liang Heng's department leaders were adamant that this marriage should not happen.
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