Red Cowshed -- Chronicle of the Wuliqing Gaoxiao

Author: Zhao Feng
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Publish Date: 1996-12-01
Features: Since ancient times, there have been various methods for governing people and diverse means for managing officials. The phenomenon of "cattle pens" that emerged in China during the 1960s and 1970s was one such method. "Cattle pens" — during the Cultural Revolution, places where officials and intellectuals had their freedom of speech and personal liberty stripped away through non-legal procedures and without arrest. The experiences in the cattle pens left many officials and intellectuals scarred both physically and mentally, filled with agony. Because of the name of revolution, China's "May Seventh Cadre Schools" were metaphorically referred to as "red cattle pens."