Wang Fuxing, a first-hand witness of the Cultural Revolution. When the Cultural Revolution broke out, Wang was a first-year student in the Department of History of Peking University. Wang's father had been labeled a Rightist in 1957, which made Wang a child of one of the Five Black Categories, which formed what was essentially a permanent underclass in Mao's China (the others were landlords, rich farmers, counter-revolutionaries, and bad elements).
Wang actively participated in the Cultural Revolution and formed a group with his classmates to oppose the then-dominant theory that held that family origin determines the development of an individual. After graduating in 1970, he was sent to work in the countryside of Ding County, Hebei Province. A year later, he was assigned to work in the Propaganda Section of the Anguo County party committee, later to teach in the county high school, before moving to the United States.
Wang has written and published Rescuing Memory: Memoirs of a Peking University Student of the Cultural Revolution and edited the book Retrospect of Stormy Days: An Anthology of Peking University Students' Experiences in the Cultural Revolution.
Wang actively participated in the Cultural Revolution and formed a group with his classmates to oppose the then-dominant theory that held that family origin determines the development of an individual. After graduating in 1970, he was sent to work in the countryside of Ding County, Hebei Province. A year later, he was assigned to work in the Propaganda Section of the Anguo County party committee, later to teach in the county high school, before moving to the United States.
Wang has written and published Rescuing Memory: Memoirs of a Peking University Student of the Cultural Revolution and edited the book Retrospect of Stormy Days: An Anthology of Peking University Students' Experiences in the Cultural Revolution.
