son of revolution chapter 1-3 notes

• Rightists


  People on the right believe that the best outcome for society is achieved when individual rights and civil liberties are paramount and the role — and especially the power — of the government is minimized
• Hundred Flowers Campaign


  Movement begun in May 1956 within the communist government of China to lift the restrictions imposed upon Chinese intellectuals and thus grant greater freedom of thought and speech
• Liang's mother's political choice


  Caused Liang's father to divorce her to protect the family
• Liang snuck out to see his mother even though his father told him not to because it would harm his future
• China went through a great famine, there was less and less food
• Liang realized the severity of the famine when Nai Nai died
• The government announced that Chiang Kai-shek was launching an attack on the mainland
• Everyone who wasn't working or who was in middle school had to evacuate, Liang's family including his mother all went to go live with his mother's side of the family
• Liang's family came back to the city and the kids were put back into school
• Liang Heng was doing very well in school
• Liang Heng was bullied at the train station one day
• Liang Heng had stopped being a "pusher" and had to go back collecting empty toothpaste in order to make book money
• Liang Heng


  1st name was Liang Dian-jie, means Liang Good News from Dienbienphu; "Little Fatso"
• Liang Fang


  Oldest sister; means Liang Liberation for the birth of New China
• Liang Wei-ping


  Second oldest sister; means Liang Defender of Peace for the march to Korea to defend it against the Americans
• Waipo


  Liang Heng's grandmother, mother's mom
• Mother


  Yan Zhi-de "Yan the Moral"
• Father


  Liang Ying-qui, means Liang Whose Requests Will be Answered; goes by Liang Shan
• Nai-Nai


  Liang Heng's grandmother, father's mom
• The political background for Son of the Revolution is a series of increasingly violent political campaigns set up by the Chinese Communist Party to increase their control over government and over the intellectuals
• In this book Liang Heng (main character) explains to us how these campaigns destroyed his family and how his faith in communism weakened