China's "Great Cultural Revolution" was a truly important event in world history. It was full of injustice and violence. In the first several months of the Culture Revolution (1966-1976), thousands of high school and college students, organized as the Red Guards, swarmed into the streets, burst into people's homes, beat and tortured innocent people sometimes to death. Many high school teachers, principals, college professors, writers, artists, as well as those who allegedly came from bad class origins became victims of the Red Guards. There has been no school for many years. Millions of young graduates wandered in the cities and had nothing to do. This was very dangerous to Chinese society. Mao Zedong decided to order all of these educated urban youth to live and work in the countryside.

I was one of those thousands and thousands of youth sent to Inner Mongolia in 1968.