Monday 5 December 2011

State nurseries

The four children in the family are sent to boarding nurseries while the author's mother is put under investigation. Chapter 10 of Wild Swans outlines how this works under the Mao campaign to discover the hidden 'counterrevolutionaries'.

There are many examples in history where a ruling power, government or state seeks to split apart families or separate mothers from children. Why might they do that?

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