Gu Zhun As I Knew Him (Foreword by Wu Jinglian)

When author Xu Fang was a little girl, she formed a deep friendship with Gu Zhun at the Cadre School in Henan. Her records offer readers a unique perspective from which to observe and understand Gu Zhun, allowing us to see his struggles as a person and his spiritual strength as an independent thinker.

As the renowned scholar Ding Dong put it, "For half a century, writings about Gu Zhun have been endless. There are monographs, essays, prose, documentaries, and other film and television works. However, most of these works are derived from reading secondary sources. Works truly from the hands of those who interacted with Gu Zhun, capable of providing exclusive details, are limited. Among them, those who had a close relationship with Gu Zhun are even rarer." "Xu Fang's 'Cadre School Notes' also differs from other 'Cadre School' memoirs in another respect. When she and her mother Zhang Chunyin arrived at the Cadre School, she was still a teenager with a childlike innocence, relatively untainted by political indoctrination. Therefore, this book does not describe life at the Cadre School from the perspective of a 'May Seventh fighter,' nor from the perspective of a participant in a political movement, but rather uses the eyes of a teenager to observe the activities of adults in a very special environment. She often discerns anomalies in things that adults take for granted, which makes the book all the more precious."

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