chapter 1 specifically

• Son of the Revolution

  Title of the book
• Setting


  • Opens in Changsha, a large city in central China, in 1957
• Liang Heng


  1. year-old protagonist
• Liang Heng escaping from child-care center

  1. Sent "for early training in Socialist thought"

  2. Finds it a "hateful" place of rules and punishments
• Liang Heng runs away to his maternal grandmother Waipo's house

  Waipo and paternal grandmother Nai Nai cart him back to his "confinement"
• Liang Heng's family


  • Has two older sisters: Liang Fang (born 1949) and Liang Wei-ping (born 1952)
  • Father Liang Shan is a reporter, editor, and one of the founders of the Hunan Daily Communist Party newspaper
  • Mother is a cadre in the Changsha Public Security Bureau
  • Family comes second to their work for the Party
• Waipo


  Liang Heng's maternal grandmother, described as "talkative and lively"
• Nai Nai


  Liang Heng's paternal grandmother, described as stricter