Jiang Qing, 202

Jin Guangyao

Zhiqing buluo (Tribes of the educated youth), 228

Johnson, Gary, 60, 177, 183, 192

Kennedy, Rosanne, 126–127, 152

Keys, Barbara J., 199, 233

Khrushchev, Nikita, 199

Knight, Sabina, 88

Heart of Time, 31, 61, 108

Kühne, Thomas, 65, 106–107

kunan wenxue, 146

labor-reform camp, 19, 45, 113, 137–138, 141, 149, 157, 163, 170, 172, 178

Land Reform Campaigns, xii, 7, 27, 78, 115, 238, 284

language, 2, 7, 12–13, 16, 27, 33, 40, 43–46, 55, 57, 59, 62, 73, 120, 131, 136, 139, 157, 160, 164, 173, 176–177, 184, 197–198, 202, 205, 229

laosanjie. See under three old classes

Laub, Dori, 36, 61

lexicography, 45

Li Cunxin

Mao’s Last Dancer, 197

Li Peng, 29

Li Rui, 222

Li, Lillian M., 25

Liang Xiaosheng, 225–226

Yige hongweibing de zibai (Confessions of a Red Guard), 224, 234

Lieberthal, Kenneth, 70, 107

Link, Perry, 61

scapegoating, 34

literary witness. See under witness

literature of suffering, 145–146

Littell, Jonathan

Les Bienveillantes, 94

Liu Jianmei, 178, 185, 192

Liu Shuhong

Chise tongnian (Red childhood), 222

Liu Wencai. See under Xinyang Incident

Liu Xinwu

“Teacher, The”, 84

Liu Yangdong

Hongdi jinzi (Golden characters on a red background), 222

Long Huiping, 172, 175, 177

Long March, 5

loyalty dance, 229

Lu Baoguo. See under Xinyang Incident

Lu Xianwen. See also Great Famine perpetrators

Lu Xinhua

“Scar, The”, 34, 36, 84–85

Lu Xun, 173

Ah Q, 78, 98

“Madman’s Diary, A”, 151

MacDonald, David B., 25–26, 61

MacFarquhar, Roderick, 60, 127

MacQueen, Michael, 65, 106

magical, 47–48

Mao talk, 45

Mao Zedong, 2–8, 10–11, 14, 17–18, 20–21, 24–30, 32, 35–36, 38–39, 41–42, 45, 50, 52, 54, 56–60, 65, 68–72, 74–75, 86, 91, 93, 98, 103, 117, 124, 134, 136–137, 144, 152, 156, 158, 168, 177, 191, 195–203, 206–208, 210–214, 217–218, 225