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  1. Nien Cheng _ Life and Death in Shanghai

    One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children. The practice inhibited all forms of human contact, so that people no longer wanted to have friends. It also encouraged secretiveness and hypocrisy. To protect himself, a man had to keep his thoughts to himself. When he was compelled to speak, often lying was the only way to protect himself and his family.
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  2. Nien Cheng _ Life and Death in Shanghai

    Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look extremely youthful, healthy, and fat {a sign of well-being in China}, these pictures provided a mocking contrast to the thin, pale-faced pedestrians walking listlessly below them. Pg. 193
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