licentiousness under mao
"I forbid you to talk to Sunyun, or go to any dance party she invites you to. She’s only fifteen, but she already owns a digital watch. Her morals are definitely suspect... you must swear on Chairman Mao’s life that you won’t speak to her again."
From Ma Jian’s very good Beijing Coma
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