Background informationInformation on Ha Jin, the author
"Ha Jin's Cultural Revolution" by Dwight Garner, New York Times Magazine Article, Feb. 6, 2000
Background information about the Cultural Revolution
- Chinese Posters: Propaganda, Politics, History, Art at http://chineseposters.net/gallery/theme-07.php
Background information on Confucius
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/#ConSoc
- Pay special attention to the Social Philosophy section about the concepts of ren and li.