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Sun Lin-lin
Uncle Zhu is a young actor from Dad’s theater company who often attends gatherings at the Jiang house prior to the Cultural Revolution. When Thin-Face and others at the theater detain him, he makes a false confession to listening to illegal foreign radio broadcasts with Dad, leading to Dad’s arrest.
Uncle Zhu Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Zhu or refer to Uncle Zhu. 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 Zhu Quotes in Red Scarf Girl
The Red Scarf Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Zhu or refer to Uncle Zhu. 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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