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A Musician's Diary A Story
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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This was Wednesday, another day of intolerable heat. When I awoke, the sun was already high in the sky— it must have been well past eight o'clock. I looked at my watch, but, alas, it had stopped again during the night. This broken watch I have worn the last seven-eight years now is long overdue for a cleaning-but that would cost two-and-a-half yuan! Never mind, my stomach knows the time, anyway. When it begins to mumble-grumble, it is mealtime. It never goes wrong.
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* At the time of this story, one yuan equaled approximately US $.50.
** Li Chieh-fu, famed in China for "model" songs like "Long Live Socialism" and "Proudly We Stride Across the Mainland," which were, in fact, musically mediocre The compos er always signed his name simply as Chieh-fu.
* Teachers and other "intellectuals" selected for persecution by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution were called "cow-ghosts and snakedemons."
** To "struggle" is a form of ritual interrogation resulting in humiliation and confession.
*** Chou's given names were crossed out —a practice usually applied to the names of condemned criminals on public placards.
**** This sort of work, as also private teaching, was illegal and often referred to as "rat's work."