Dean of the College of Humanity Arts of the Macau University of Science and Technology, Professor Yu Qiuyu had been flying out of the radar of this blog, mostly because of the presumption that writers do not have virtue. But increasingly so, Professor Yu managed to make himself standing out high above almost other writers alive in China, thus this entry.
Around the time of the Great Cultural Revolution, Yu's father was jailed, and his uncle was forced suicide. Yu, however, devoted himself and embraced the 'revolution' with full heart, as a major writer advocating for the revolution. Yu is a red guard and a key member of the group 'Shi Yi Ge (a song of the rock)' which was responsible for numerous articles that had been used in propaganda campaign for the revolution. Yu had been linked directly to persecution of intelligentsia with conscious and value. Yu is also a key editorial member of journal 'Morning Cloud', which is an important vehicle of the spreading of 'cultural revolution'.
Yu had been criticized for having no clue of history while writing about history, along plagiarism and other unethical behavior and academic misconduct. However, those were not the concern of this blog.
What enraged us, the normal people, are Yu's aggressive accusations on anyone who do not fully agree with the communism ideology and the ruling of the communist party. After the Sichuan Earthquake, when tens of thousands of people were killed, and disproportional school buildings collapsed, people demand the government to investigate the building quality of school buildings. Yu jumped out, and threatened parents who had their children killed should remind silence, otherwise their act could be exploited by anti-government movement. Yu encouraged them to 'act like the ruling class of this country', and collaborate to keep the mood of the country. Yu, has been a iconic figure of shamelessness, and a living proof that a person with knowledge have the capacity to dive deeper below moral bottom line.
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