第333页 The Historian in My Family

In the factory towns of the south, I was meeting young women and watching them learn how to be individuals. They found jobs; they confronted bosses; they tried to learn new skills. Mostly they camr to believe that they mattered, despite their humble origins. Do not feel inferior because we are ordinary migrant workers, Chunming wrote in her diary. We have no reason to feel inferior. In Zhang Hong `s world, it was still 1957. He loved himself; he hated himself. He hated Mao; he quoted Mao constantly. He despised the  Party; he belonged to the Party. The Chinese revolution has been defeated! My father is a Rightist.