Black Memory of Natural Disasters and Human Calamities

Author: Wen Fang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Lenin said, "To forget the past is to betray it." To remember the past, Black Memories is a book that every conscientious Chinese person cannot afford to ignore. Mao Zedong said, "The long night is difficult to illuminate in the Red Land; for a hundred years, the demons dance." Black Memories vividly depicts the chaotic dance of demons in China for a century. Having lived in Japan for many years, I often hear Japanese people mock Chinese people for being "forgetful," and I have no answer. After reading Black Memories, I finally understand that the stereotype of Chinese people being "forgetful" can be thoroughly refuted! "Blind Li Gui pulled a woman off the bed, reached into his waist and took out a knife, opened her belly, pulled out her internal organs, chopped them into pieces, and boiled them for food. As for that little girl? I saw them boiling the woman, so I picked up the little girl and ran home. I cooked and ate it myself."