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| | Books | Children of the revolution |
 | | Chai Ling, the so-called chief commander on the square, was seen on television all over the world every day for almost a month: a frail girl in baggy jeans, hectoring the crowds through a megaphone that seemed to hide her face. |
 | | Chai's tearful rhetoric owed something to universal student romanticism, exploited by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, but there were echoes of an older Chinese tradition: it was not rare for critics of the emperor to sacrifice their lives as the price for telling the truth. |
 | | Chai's adolescent dream was to have a television show for parents and children, then build a theme park and merchandise the clothes and toys. |
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