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https://globalvoices.org/2017/05/21/viral-video-triggers-debate-over-patriotic-education-in-china-again/

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up stander, bystander, Victim, and Perpetrator

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBBJy1NYjjbZhUDcaw_pylUa9DQ1olr4DQCB_jXtmC8/edit

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Children book author Ji-li Jiang has a mission - to bridge the gap between China and western countries. Ji-li published several books including Red Scarf Girl, a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution. She travels around the country to give presentations at schools and conferences; she takes groups to China to explore the Chinese culture and history.

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Influenced by contemporary Western poets and modernist imagist techniques, the Misty poets challenged the Maoist artistic ideology of social realism.

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Misty Poets tagged items - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.

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On Poetry - The Cultural Revolution and the Necessity of Culture

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On Poetry - The Cultural Revolution and the Necessity of Culture

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My father, Ai Qing, was an early influence of mine. He was a true poet, viewing all subjects through an innocent and honest lens. For this, he suffered greatly. Exiled to the remote desert region of Xinjiang, he was forbidden to write. During the Cultural Revolution, he was made to clean the public toilets. At the time, those rural toilets were beyond one's imagination, neglected by the entire village. This was as low as one's condition could go. And yet, as a child I saw him making the greatest effort to keep each toilet as clean and as pleasant as possible, taking care of the waste with complete sincerity. To me, this is the best poetic act, and one that I will never forget.

My father was punished for being a poet, and I grew up in its consequences. But even when things were at their most difficult, I saw his heart protected by an innocent understanding of the world. For poetry is against gravity. Reading Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, and Vladimir Mayakovsky at a young age, I discovered that all poetry has the same quality. It transports us to another place, away from the moment, away from our circumstances.

In my own work, the process of creation always requires the understanding of aesthetics in relation to morality, to the pureness of a form, or to a personal language, one which extends us clearly to another. Many of my projects have poetic elements. In 2007, I brought 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel, Germany, for documenta 12. For many, it was their first time traveling outside of China. This was Fairytale. In 2008, we researched, under extremely harsh and restrictive conditions, the aftermath of the Great Sichuan Earthquake and unearthed the names and birth dates of 5,196 student victims, otherwise buried forever.

I used to say that Twitter is the perfect form for poetry. It is the poetry of society in the modern age. In engaging social media and the forms of communication it makes possible, again and again we find ourselves deeply moved with emotion. By anger, joy, even feelings that are new and indescribable. This is poetic. It makes today a unique time.

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.

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My father, Ai Qing, was an early influence of mine. He was a true poet, viewing all subjects through an innocent and honest lens. For this, he suffered greatly. Exiled to the remote desert region of Xinjiang, he was forbidden to write. During the Cultural Revolution, he was made to clean the public toilets.

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Under Chariman Mao's rule, children turned against their parents and even supported their execution. How have influences of his past shaped his current reality?

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Chinese Cultural Revolution: the boy who denounced his mother

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"Still ashamed of my part in the Cultural Revolution"

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"Still ashamed of my part in the Cultural Revolution"

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Here is a clip of a former Red Guard speaking about his experiences and the shame he still experiences. How have influences of his past shaped his current reality?

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Still ashamed of my part in Mao's Cultural Revolution - BBC News

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Here is an excerpt from a documentary about The Red Guards!

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I think all of the things that we are studying is about life and conflicts and responsibilities that we should face through our lives. For our identity, it is something that is significant to us. Sometimes we try not to admit ourselves and copy and mock other people or person that you think you could hide your identity. But once we admit our identity and show and use your identity to the society, it would be able to do more impactful and meaningful job using their identity to cooperate and interact with other people that has their own identity.

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Citizen

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Changing Culture, Shifting Identity: I am Not Black

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Changing Culture, Shifting Identity: I am Not Black

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I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White (2025)