1. Memoir of Mighty Mao: The Journal of Xiao Bei
By Haylie Woo 8-1
Wednesday, May 15, 13

2. Our town after the drastic floodFather working in the ‘Backyard Steel’
campaign
Picture of me and my friends in the nursery
Wednesday, May 15, 13

3. July 24, 1959
Picking
up
my
doll
soaked
with
the
muddy
water,
I
noticed
that
everything
was
ruined
since
the
harsh
9lood
from
last
night.
Last
night’s
rain
trampled
down
like
giant
tears
from
the
sky
crying
out
for
sincere.
Mother,
Father
and
I
escaped
to
the
top
of
the
roof,
cuddled
around
with
a
thick
cotton
blanket,
trembling.
We
were
an
ordinary
family
living
in
Shunyi.
Everything
we
wished,
everything
that
Mother
and
Father
had
worked
for
all
those
years
were
now
drowned
under
the
ruthless
9lood.
Glancing
at
the
hot
innocent
sun,
I
closed
my
eyes
and
9lashed
back
to
the
time
when
everything
was
perfect.
“Xiao
Bei!”
It
was
the
morning
of
a
warm
spring
day.
The
breakfast
was
ready
and
Father
read
the
newspaper
for
us
while
we
were
eating.
He
said
that
to
develop
our
Chinese
economy,
it
is
necessary
for
peasants
to
join
the
higher-­‐stage
cooperatives
to
make
further
process
of
the
Five-­‐Year
Plan.
Although
I
couldn’t
understand
clearly,
but
by
reading
off
Father’s
anxious
face,
I
noticed
that
it
wasn't
bene9icial
for
us.
Everything
was
under
the
communist
use,
and
Mother
seemed
to
be
concerned
about
the
food
shortages.
I
was
so
annoyed
by
how
Communist
Party
stole
my
parents
from
me
by
making
them
to
work
all
day
long.
Since
the
disagreements
of
my
neighbors
were
getting
severe,
Mao
generously
encouraged
us
to
have
an
argument
by
starting
‘The
Hundred
Flowers’.
I
still
remember
that
day
walking
through
the
crowd
with
Father,
watching
people
complaining
about
the
harsh
labor
they
have
to
complete
in
a
day.
I
thought
Mao
would
provide
some
solutions,
but
soon
the
Hundred
Flower
withered
and
people
were
banned
to
have
a
free
speech.
Since
my
parents
seemed
to
be
understandable
of
the
purpose
of
Mao
planning
the
Great
Leap
Forward,
our
family
was
positive
about
the
reorganization
of
the
people
into
communes.
Father
explained
that
living
in
the
industrialized
country
with
developed
agriculture
is
the
only
dream
of
people.
Everybody
in
our
village,
including
my
family,
gave
up
our
land
and
animals
to
the
communist
party.
For
several
days,
I
couldn’t
meet
Mother
and
Father
during
the
day.
They
had
to
eat
their
lunch
in
the
communal
eating
halls
to
be
not
distracted.
Although
I
couldn’t
see
my
parents
and
spend
time
with
them
for
several
months,
by
looking
at
the
posters,
slogans,
and
newspaper
articles
posted
on
the
streets,
I
could
see
the
possibilities
of
China
becoming
the
world’s
most
industrialized
country.
Mother
always
hummed
the
melody
of
the
revolutionary
music
playing
from
the
loudspeakers
every
morning,
working
hard
with
full
of
enthusiasm.
After
few
weeks,
several
backyard
steel
furnaces
were
set
up
in
our
village.
I
still
remember
that
tall
gray
buildings
puking
out
the
black
smoke.
According
to
Mother,
Father
transposed
to
the
‘Backyard
Steel’
campaign
to
make
tons
of
steel
to
become
more
industrialized
country.
However,
I
noticed
that
our
family
was
suffering
through
the
famine,
and
one
night,
Father
came
home
with
frown
on
his
face
complaining
that
he
is
tired
of
working
in
the
‘Backyard
Steel’
campaign,
because
he
had
lack
of
time
for
rest
and
sleep.
Even
though
the
Great
Leap
Forward
has
9inally
ended
now,
the
famine
took
in
our
village
as
everybody
was
working
in
industrial
products.
Every
day
coming
back
from
the
nursery,
I
think,
what
shall
I
eat
for
dinner?
Some
sorts
of
seeds
were
the
only
food
we
had.
I
even
saw
my
neighbors
chewing
the
earth.
The
only
thing
that
Father
said
we
could
do
is
waiting
for
our
great
leader,
Mao,
to
solve
this
problem.
Wednesday, May 15, 13

4. Posters and slogans are everywhere!
Me and my fellow companions
criticizing Professor Wang
We, the Red Guards, proudly raising up
‘The Little Red Book’ in Tiananmen Square
Wednesday, May 15, 13

5. June 29, 1966
“Long
live,
Chairman
Mao!”
Every
day,
my
life
seemed
to
be
getting
better.
It
is
my
fellow
companions
and
my
duty
to
destroy
the
Four
Olds
and
criticize
the
people
who
are
known
as
“reactionary”.
For
me,
anyone
without
the
‘Little
Red
Book’,
the
book
9illed
up
with
the
most
intelligent
and
knowledgeable
words
of
our
remarkable
leader
Mao,
would
be
known
as
the
rightists
and
should
be
overthrown.
Ever
since
the
Three
Bitter
Years,
the
hope
of
living
happily
in
the
industrialized
country
with
Mother
and
Father
seemed
as
impossible
follow
by
the
straight
three
years
of
famine.
Despite
the
fact
that
Mao
has
the
responsibility
of
the
Great
Leap
Forward,
all
of
us
disagreed
of
accusing
him,
which
soon
Liu
Shaoqi
took
over
the
post
of
head
of
State.
Even
though
the
communes
were
reduced
while
we
had
back
our
own
land
and
Mother
could
cooked
me
my
favorite
dish,
man
tao,
again,
both
of
my
parents
and
I
hate
Liu
who
seemed
as
going
against
Mao,
my
only
great
revolutionary
hero.
After
I
moved
to
Beijing
for
a
better
career,
the
new
society
was
waiting
for
me.
Everybody
was
talking
about
Mao
and
recited
his
messages.
Posters
and
slogans
were
ubiquitous;
they
were
hanging
down
the
streets
and
on
the
walls.
After
few
weeks
of
school,
I
had
noticed
that
some
of
my
classmates
aren’t
appearing
during
the
school
day.
Then
one
day
in
the
beginning
of
the
history
class,
my
friend
Wang
Hong
suddenly
started
to
swear
and
yell
at
the
professor
while
ripping
off
our
textbook
History
and
Culture
of
China
in
front
of
him.
She
ran
out
the
class
immediately.
Soon
I
noticed
that
Wang
Hong
was
also
one
of
the
Red
Guards,
and
she
encouraged
me
to
join
her
and
become
one
of
the
Red
Guards.
After
seeing
the
Beijing
University
created
Red
Guards
to
assist
Mao
because
of
a
young
teacher
who
wrote
dazibao
to
go
against
the
school
administrators
and
professors,
I
thought
it
is
meaningful
to
support
Mao
and
his
idea
of
smashing
the
Four
Olds
for
better
future.
Wang
Hong
became
my
best
friend.
Now
everyone
is
required
to
have
at
least
one
copy
of
the
“Little
Red
Book”.
One
day
we
saw
Professor
Wang
walking
down
the
street
without
the
“Little
Red
Book.”
We
immediately
hold
on
to
him
and
punched
his
face
while
throwing
rocks.
Even
though
he
explained
that
he
couldn’t
bring
the
“Little
Red
Book”
because
he
doesn’t
have
a
pocket
in
his
shirt,
we
didn’t
trust
him.
Why
would
we?
We
put
dunce
cap,
a
cone,
over
his
head
and
cut
his
hair
to
teach
him
a
lesson
that
this
was
what
he
would
pay
for
as
being
a
reactionary.
He
crawled
up
to
me
and
cried
out
for
mercy.
But
there’s
no
such
a
thing
call
mercy
to
me
as
he
was
being
reactionary.
I
kicked
his
stomach
off
my
way.
What
a
ruthless
man,
I
thought.
Now,
almost
every
week
we
proudly
held
up
our
Little
Red
Book
in
the
air
at
the
Tiananmen
Square
and
chanted
out
the
slogan.
Our
phenomenal
leader
Mao
also
applauded
to
our
“right
to
rebel”
and
motivated
us
to
continue
with
our
cheer.
It
is
my
dream
to
touch
Mao’s
hand
for
once.
But
indeed,
he
never
really
appeared
in
person
in
the
public,
which
made
me
a
bit
upset.
The
PLA,
People’s
Liberation
Army,
thankfully
provided
us
some
food,
khaki
uniforms
and
some
transportation
fee
to
appear
in
the
rallies.
Everything
that
Mao
says
is
always
correct.
He
is
our
only
respective
and
liberal
leader
in
China.
Wednesday, May 15, 13

6. Poster advertising the ‘Down to the
Countryside’ movement
Photo taken when Wang Hong and I
was in Shunyi
Wednesday, May 15, 13

7. December 8, 1970
The
cold
wind
punched
me
on
my
face.
The
weather
was
getting
colder
as
I
came
back
from
the
countryside,
Shunyi.
It
has
been
one
week
after
Wang
Hong
and
I
were
free
from
having
a
“re-­‐education”
down
from
the
countryside.
I
was
lucky
that
I
could
ride
on
the
truck;
there
were
lots
of
other
people
came
back
to
Beijing
by
walking
for
few
days.
The
9irst
news
that
I
read
from
the
news
article
after
I
came
back
from
Shunyi
was
that
the
Lin
Biao
is
promoted
to
vice
chairman
of
the
CCP
while
he
was
known
as
Mao’s
successor
and
comrade-­‐in-­‐arms.
The
city
I
saw
from
last
two
years
seemed
to
be
stronger
by
the
reconstructions
of
the
efforts
of
PLA.
I
was
so
glad
to
see
Mao
regaining
his
power
again.
All
those
years
working
in
Haituo
Mountain
just
planted
some
unexpected
and
horrifying
memories
in
the
head.
I
still
can’t
resist
the
memory
when
Wang
Hong
and
I
had
been
taken
to
the
countryside
by
Mao’s
commandment.
Although
I
learned
some
new
technologies
on
agriculture
and
industrial
during
two
years
in
countryside,
but
the
shocking
vision
I
had
was
not
right
as
I
expected.
Two
years
ago,
when
my
peaceful
Red
Guards
and
I
were
marching
down
the
street
singing
the
revolutionary
song
while
looking
for
any
reactionaries,
suddenly
PLA
blocked
our
way
and
seized
us
from
being
Red
Guards
and
ordered
us
to
go
back
to
our
home.
One
of
the
soldiers
explained
that
despite
the
fact
that
we
created
a
lot
of
devastating
masses
by
imprisoning
and
torturing
the
people,
our
great
leader
Mao
commanded
us
to
9inalize
this.
Then
few
days
later,
Wang
Hong
and
I
were
sent
to
Haituo
mountain,
which
located
somewhere
in
the
countryside
in
Shunyi,
where
once
I
had
lived.
We
were
ordered
to
learn
some
manual
labor
and
be
“reeducated”
by
rural
peasants.
Since
it
was
the
order
from
Mao,
I
followed
and
respected
his
words
while
uncertain
with
what
is
the
real
reason.
When
Wang
Hong
and
I
9inally
arrived
in
Haituo
Mountain,
the
vision
that
I
believed
for
was
disillusioned.
There
were
absolutely
no
greens
growing
in
the
vast
of
the
land.
The
soil
was
all
cracked
up
as
if
there
was
an
earthquake.
Were
all
the
hopes
I
were
dreaming
for
were
just
an
imagination?
I
thought
everything
would
be
perfect
with
a
start
of
a
new
generation.
The
Four
Olds
are
destroyed
and
our
lives
seemed
to
be
getting
better
as
the
time
passes.
But
the
reality
in
the
countryside
was
horrible.
What
was
really
happening
in
the
countryside
while
I
was
living
happily
and
comfortably
in
Beijing?
People
I
saw
in
Haituo
Mountain
were
just
like
some
zombies
living
in
the
hell.
I
was
shocked
for
few
days
that
I
couldn’t
even
work
properly.
Every
day
Wang
Hong
and
I
worked
in
the
farm,
learning
how
to
plant
seeds
and
organize
the
dirt
while
plunk
out
the
weeds.
We
felt
fortunate
that
at
least
we
didn’t
have
to
work
in
“the
little
coal
mine,”
where
all
the
boys
were
being
naked
while
mining
the
coal.
Coming
back
to
Beijing
after
the
‘Down
to
the
Countryside’
movement,
I
felt
like
I
realized
something
that
I
should
never
know.
It
gave
me
a
huge
confusion
on
the
purpose
of
destroying
the
Four
Olds
and
welcoming
a
new
generation.
Was
Mao
already
knew
what
was
going
on
in
the
countryside?
Is
there
a
hidden
reason
that
Mao
wanted
to
hide?
Wednesday, May 15, 13

8. Poster created by CCP to criticize Lin Biao Workers of the Printing House criticizing
Confucius on the blackboard
Wednesday, May 15, 13

9. October 16, 1974
In
the
morning
of
an
autumn
day,
the
open
air
swirled
around
my
face,
clean
and
fresh.
As
usual,
I
walked
out
to
the
front
door
and
picked
up
the
newspaper.
It
has
been
few
weeks
after
“Criticize
Lin
Biao,
Criticize
Confucius”
Campaign
has
ended.
I
have
heard
some
news
about
Lin
Biao
and
his
death
for
several
months,
but
no
one
really
cared
about
the
“Criticize
Lin
Biao,
Criticize
Confucius”
campaign
since
we
have
seen
a
lot
of
campaigns
come
and
go.
It’s
just
useless,
I
think.
But
hearing
of
his
death
made
me
suspicious
by
the
fact
that
the
person
who
was
known
as
Mao’s
supporter
as
well
as
companion
tried
to
overcome
Mao’s
power.
When
I
9irst
heard
the
rumor
from
Wang
Hong
that
Mao
denied
Lin
Biao’s
requested
promotions
for
several
times
as
tensions
grew
between
the
two,
I
could
predict
that
poisonous
branches
were
between
Mao
and
Lin
Biao
which
would
lead
the
power
of
Lin
Biao
would
dwindle
and
crashes
like
a
weak
branch
from
enormous
tree.
But
like
a
miracle,
my
prediction
came
true.
When
I
was
eating
jiao
zi
with
Wang
Hong
in
a
Chinese
restaurant,
the
announcer
from
the
radio
spoke
out
that
Lin
biao
and
his
family
died
in
plane
crashes
over
Mongolia
while
9lying
to
the
Soviet
Union,
and
that
the
Chinese
government
found
out
that
Lin
attempted
a
coup
d’etat
in
the
beginning
of
the
September
to
assassinate
Mao.
He
repeated
several
times
as
if
he
was
sure
with
Lin’s
betrayal.
At
9irst,
both
Wang
Hong
and
I
were
full
of
anger
and
felt
treacherous
from
Lin.
How
could
he
attempted
to
kill
Mao?
Wang
Hong’s
face
turned
red
as
a
tomato
and
shouted
out
that
she
has
no
understanding
of
Lin.
She
wondered
why
the
person
who
was
once
Mao’s
best
student
as
well
as
supporter
would
betray
him.
The
news
of
Lin
Biao’s
betrayal
and
his
death
spread
all
across
China,
which
made
his
reputation
to
be
completely
down
to
the
bottom.
I
thought
he
deserved
it.
However,
when
Da
Wei
told
me
that
Jiang
Qing
created
the
“Criticize
Lin
Biao”
campaign
and
addition
with
“Criticize
Lin
Biao,
Criticize
Confucius”
campaign
to
blame
all
the
mistakes
of
the
Cultural
Revolution
as
Lin’s
fault,
I
changed
my
mind.
I
thought
it
was
kind
of
strange
to
blame
Lin
for
every
mistake
in
the
Cultural
Revolution,
and
in
my
opinion,
he
didn’t
caused
any
problems
that
were
against
Mao.
Wasn’t
Lin
Biao
was
the
one
who
created
‘The
Little
Red
Book’
and
always
lead
me
to
have
a
dream
of
living
in
a
new
generation?
Besides
Mao,
actually
Lin
was
my
true
hero
who
gave
trust
to
me.
I
still
remember
the
time
when
he
was
making
a
speech
leading
us
one
step
closer
to
the
Cultural
Revolution.
I
really
wonder
if
Lin
should
receive
all
the
blame
of
the
mistakes
of
the
Cultural
Revolution
by
being
supportive
and
helpful
to
Mao.
Then
I
suddenly
thought
that
maybe
Jiang
Qing
would
have
kill
Lin
who
seemed
to
overcome
Mao’s
power.
All
those
years
the
campaign
“Criticize
Lin
Biao,
Criticize
Confucius”
was
on
the
news
and
the
radio
everyday,
no
one,
including
myself,
really
care
about
this
campaign
because
there
was
often
other
campaigns
criticizing
the
innocent
people.
Also
I
actually
have
loose
the
trust
and
became
suspicious
to
Mao
since
I
never
thought
he
would
be
supportive
to
“Criticize
Lin
Biao,
Criticize
Confucius”
campaign.
Wednesday, May 15, 13

10. Poster emphasizing the Gang of Four
Picture of Tiananmen Incident. People are
commemorating the death of Zhou Enlai
Wang Hong and me crying for Mao’s death
Wednesday, May 15, 13

11. October 7, 1976
It
was
a
clear
morning;
the
blue
and
white
mixture
of
paint
swirled
carefully
together
high
up
in
the
sky.
I
breathed
the
chilly
air
in
through
my
nose
and
exhaled
through
my
dry
lips.
The
yesterday’s
memory
of
watching
the
Gang
of
Four
being
arrested
by
Hua
Gofeng,
the
new
Chairman
of
CCP,
was
just
a
bit
getting
on
my
nerves
because
I
am
suspicious
with
all
the
power
of
Mao
and
the
true
face
of
him.
I
have
a
doubt
on
the
reason
accusing
the
Gang
of
Four
with
a
possibilities
that
they
might
be
the
scapegoat
of
having
blame
on
all
the
failure
of
the
Cultural
Revolution
after
the
breakdown
of
the
“Criticize
Lin
Biao,
Criticize
Confucius”
campaign.
According
to
Da
Wei,
the
Gang
of
Four,
including
Jiang
Qing,
Zhang
Chunqiao,
Yao
Wenyuan,
and
Wang
Hongwen,
were
the
four
leaders
assisting
Mao
that
often
delivered
messages
of
him
while
constantly
gaining
the
power.
He
told
me
that
the
government
pointed
out
that
they
were
the
ones
that
made
us
to
suffer
while
loosing
our
leaders,
Mao
and
Zhou.
However,
in
my
perspective,
I
think
the
Gang
of
Four
never
committed
any
crimes
that
made
us
to
suffer
more
drastically
during
the
Cultural
Revolution.
Then
why
did
they
get
all
the
blame
of
the
mistakes
results
from
the
Cultural
Revolution?
Wang
Hong
guessed
that
maybe
the
arresting
of
the
Gang
of
Four
was
a
way
for
Mao
to
keep
his
“god
Tigure
image”
to
us,
to
indicate
that
he
is
innocent
with
any
disasters
happened
during
the
Cultural
Revolution.
If
that
were
true,
it
shows
that
Mao
wasn’t
blameless
for
all
of
the
misfortune.
Jogging
around
the
Tiananmen
Square
with
Wang
Hong
every
morning,
the
memories
of
the
Tiananmen
Incident
9lashed
back
in
my
mind.
It
was
a
warm
spring
day
when
Zhou
Enlai,
the
most
respective
advocate
of
modernization,
died
with
cancer.
Glancing
at
the
Tiananmen
Square
reminds
me
of
myself
with
Wang
Hong
being
one
of
the
attendees
crying
out
for
Zhou’s
regrettable
death.
Everybody,
were
mourning
and
sobbing
by
his
death
since
he
was
the
moderate
leader
who
had
protected
us
for
well
being.
We
all
commemorate
in
the
memorial
for
his
death
quietly.
Meanwhile,
all
of
us
carefully
requested
for
“more
openness
in
government,
an
end
to
dictatorship,
and
a
return
to
the
true
spirit
of
Marxism-­‐
Leninism”.
But
there
was
a
small
riot
when
Jiang
Qing
and
her
assistance
attempted
to
con9iscate
the
memorial.
I
still
remember
myself
criticizing
Jiang
Qing
during
the
Tiananmen
Incident;
why
does
she
want
to
stop
us
from
requesting
for
a
better
life?
My
trust
on
the
revolution
policy
for
ten
years
has
just
broken
into
pieces
after
the
end
of
the
Cultural
Revolution,
which
is
after
the
death
of
our
great
leader,
Mao.
Last
month,
the
Lord
of
the
people
died
after
a
year
of
hospitalizing.
Mao’s
death
was
like
a
tragic
for
me.
Even
though
my
trust
on
Mao
has
been
withered
since
the
‘Down
to
the
Countryside’
movement,
because
of
his
power
was
so
powerful
and
trustable,
the
death
of
him
was
unbelievable
shocking
news
in
my
life.
In
whatever
reasons,
I
am
so
glad
that
the
Cultural
Revolution
has
been
9inally
marked
the
end
peacefully.
Even
though
the
dream
of
living
in
a
new
generation
seemed
to
not
been
successful,
for
ten
years
being
involved
in
the
Cultural
Revolution,
I
learned
a
lot
of
lessons.
Also,
the
memories
of
mighty
Mao
would
be
everlasting
deep
under
my
heart.
Wednesday, May 15, 13

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