Red Scarf Girl

Chairman Mao taught us that “inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance.”

Chairman Mao taught us that “inner beauty is much more valuable than outwar

Seventeen years after Liberation, the newspapers told us, our schools were not bringing us up to be good red socialists and communists, as we had thought, but revisionists.

. The girl waved her scissors with unconcealed delight. “Look! Another pair of too-tight pants. Now let’s get rid of the fourolds!”