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Yu Luowen
| In Morning Sun, Yu Luowen talks at length about his older brother, Yu Luoke, an extraordinarily prescient critic of the Cultural Revolution and political manipulation in China, who was executed in 1970 for his ideas. Refused entry to university because his parents had been capitalists, Yu Luoke became a worker. His essays on equality and the right to revolution made him famous in 1967, but they were later denounced by the authorities. More incriminating were a series of scathing comments about the unfolding political drama and its follies that Yu Luoke wrote in his personal diary in mid-1966. (Only short excerpts of his diary have been published to this day, for it was confiscated by the authorities and has never been returned to his family.) |  |