ABSTRACT

https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig30_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Zhu Xiaoping was born in 1952 in Luzhou, Sichuan Province, but moved to Xi'an when his father became a high official at a college. Being the son of a high-ranking official, he was sent to a special boarding school—a rare privilege in Maoist China. This status, however, did not make him identify with the cadre class. On the contrary, his experience in the countryside and his great sympathy for the poverty-stricken peasantry have made him a rebel against his own class.