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Cuncia is the eldest of Niang and Dia’s sons. His brothers are Cunyuan, Cunmao, Cunsang, Cunfar, Cunxin, and Jing Tring. As a teen, he joins the Red Guards and serves the Chinese Communist Party in its efforts to annex Tibet. While there, he meets his wife and has his only child, a son. But when the government changes its Tibet policy, he is recalled to mainland China where he ends up working in a post office. He feels disillusioned and cheated of important years of his life as he grows older and realizes how harshly the Communist Party used and abused its followers, especially during the years of the Cultural Revolution when he was growing up.
Cuncia Quotes in Mao’s Last Dancer
The Mao’s Last Dancer quotes below are all either spoken by Cuncia or refer to Cuncia . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 29: Back in My Village
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“I’m only one of millions of victims,” my brother explained to Mary. “I am, like so many people in China, still amazed at how badly I was manipulated and betrayed by Mao and the Gang of Four. The Red Guards of yesterday were the epitome of the communist spirit. Now we are searching for answers. We have to live with our injured pride and lost beliefs.”
I felt so much sorrow for Cuncia. I knew what he said was true—he had spent the best part of his youth pursuing nothing but propaganda. But the Cultural Revolution didn’t just rob him of his youth; it crushed and destroyed his spirit and his soul. His trust in society had vanished. Even his sacred family values had been called into question by Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
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Cuncia Quotes in Mao’s Last Dancer
The Mao’s Last Dancer quotes below are all either spoken by Cuncia or refer to Cuncia . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 29: Back in My Village
Quotes
“I’m only one of millions of victims,” my brother explained to Mary. “I am, like so many people in China, still amazed at how badly I was manipulated and betrayed by Mao and the Gang of Four. The Red Guards of yesterday were the epitome of the communist spirit. Now we are searching for answers. We have to live with our injured pride and lost beliefs.”
I felt so much sorrow for Cuncia. I knew what he said was true—he had spent the best part of his youth pursuing nothing but propaganda. But the Cultural Revolution didn’t just rob him of his youth; it crushed and destroyed his spirit and his soul. His trust in society had vanished. Even his sacred family values had been called into question by Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
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