ABSTRACT
Yue Daiyun, a university professor, was witness to much of the violence that marked the early stages of the Cultural Revolution (CR). Violence, brutality, tragedy became commonplace at Beida, is a contraction for 'Beijing Daxue', that August. Every day and night small groups of five would be picked up to be criticized in their departments and then paraded through the campus to 'accept struggle from the masses'. One evening author had gone out to read the new posters when she came upon a group of students surrounding a teacher from the math department, a woman who had graduated in the same class as I, standing on one of those benches, her hair disheveled and a big placard across her chest announcing that she was an active counter-revolutionary. She had once remarked that the Cultural Revolution was wrong, author learned, and when her comment was reported, she was taken into custody and held somewhere on campus, perhaps in a classroom building.
