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political-persecution-of-intellectuals
The systematic targeting, humiliation, and often death of academics and intellectuals accused of reactionary or bourgeois tendencies.
1 chapter across 1 book
The Three-Body Problem (2008)Liu Cixin
PART I
The chapter depicts the violent factional struggles during China's Cultural Revolution in 1967, focusing on the brutal siege of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade and the public struggle session of physics professor Ye Zhetai at Tsinghua University. It highlights the fanaticism and madness of the Red Guards, the ideological persecution of intellectuals, and the collapse of rationality under political pressure, exemplified by Ye's refusal to repent despite physical and psychological torment.