Shine a flashlight on yourself

Author: Bai Qingling
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: "The flashlight of Marxism-Leninism—shedding light on others but not on oneself," this is an old saying that meant only seeing others' flaws but failing to recognize one's own problems. This book is a collection of essays where students use "a flashlight to examine themselves," discovering, acknowledging, and reflecting on their own shortcomings. Examples include precociousness, a strong sense of dependence yet poor social skills, selfishness and indifference, vague romantic feelings between boys and girls, the cutthroat competition in studies caused by college entrance exam pressure, mutual rivalry, lying, spreading rumors, falsification, and indescribable worries. In short, this book is a silhouette of contemporary Chinese high school students in the reverse light, a "confession" of contemporary Chinese high school students.