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Uncle Tian and his wife, Aunt Wu, are friends of Dad’s from the theater company. After Thin-Face and his faction gain power and detain Dad, Uncle Tian continues to help the Jiang family out. He gets news about the charges against Dad to Ji-li and, along with Mom, drafts a letter to the Municipal Party Committee attempting to report Thin-Face and the others. For this crime, Uncle Tian finds himself detained, too, at least until another faction takes over for Thin-Face and reverses many of his decisions.
Uncle Tian Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Tian or refer to Uncle Tian. 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 16: The Incriminating Letter
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The letter complained about the situation in the theater. The faction in power, the Rebels, did whatever they wanted, ignoring the policy directives from the Central Committee of the Party, the letter said. They treated people with nonpolitical problems, like Aunt Wu, as class enemies, and they had humiliated her, shaving half her head in a yin-yang hairdo. They frequently beat their prisoners and had already beaten two to death. They even recorded the screams and moans of the prisoners being tortured, and played the tapes to frighten other prisoners under interrogation.
“We urgently hope,” the letter concluded, “that the Municipal Party Committee will investigate this situation and correct it before it is too late.” The letter was signed, “The Revolutionary Masses.”
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Uncle Tian Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Tian or refer to Uncle Tian. 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 16: The Incriminating Letter
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The letter complained about the situation in the theater. The faction in power, the Rebels, did whatever they wanted, ignoring the policy directives from the Central Committee of the Party, the letter said. They treated people with nonpolitical problems, like Aunt Wu, as class enemies, and they had humiliated her, shaving half her head in a yin-yang hairdo. They frequently beat their prisoners and had already beaten two to death. They even recorded the screams and moans of the prisoners being tortured, and played the tapes to frighten other prisoners under interrogation.
“We urgently hope,” the letter concluded, “that the Municipal Party Committee will investigate this situation and correct it before it is too late.” The letter was signed, “The Revolutionary Masses.”
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