In 1948, Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, wrote a book called 1984. With chilling insights into the future, the novel reveals a totalitarian society as it's functioning in the year 1984. In this world, people are ruled under "The Party." At the head of this government is a figure is known as Big Brother, an omniscient leader who can only be seen on telescreens but never in real life. He watches the people of the nation, Oceania, every minute of every day. Though this book was written in the year 1948, it tells much the same what was happened in China during the Cultural Revolution that took place almost two decades later. Red China Blues, based on Jan Wong¡s chronicle of her experience during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, gives us a complete explanation of how such a totalitarian society operated in real life.
             After the failure of the Great Leap Forward, an unrealistic goal that to turn China into the world¡s superpower, many people were dead in Starving. By 1959, the economy had been crippled by the follies of the Great Leap, the people were exhausted and demoralized, and starvation stalked the land. Economists estimate that the Great Leap caused a loss of $66 billion to the economy; demographers calculate that up to 30 million people died as a result f the Mao-made famine, the worst in Chinese history ¡(p337, The Twentieth Century). Mao had to admit the catastrophe facing China, and been eased out of direct control of the party and the government. In order to end his forced retirement in China, Mao started The Cultural Revolution by throwing China into a frenzy of turmoil.
             A large part of the novel, Ninety Eighty-Four, deals with the relationship between The Party and the society. Many of the techniques used by The Party are very similar to those used by the Communist Party (CCP) in China.
             One of these ways is by propaganda. In Ninety Eighty-Four, with ¡§telescreens¡ install...