Kong Yi Ji
Kong Yiji insists that taking books is not really this, because scholars are different from ordinary people.
What is stealing?
Old Tong Bao blames these people for ruining the local economy and driving prices down on what farmers sell and on what they buy.
Who are the foreign devils?
Gao Jialin worked this job in the city
What is a communications cadre?
This orphan from Hunan province became the most famous model soldier in China.
Who is Lei Feng?
This waste worker from Third Space travels through the folded city to deliver a secret message.
Who is Lao Dao?
This piece of clothing symbolizes Kong Yiji’s attachment to the scholar class even though he is poor.
What is the long gown?
The old man of the story who hates anything foreign and is trying to keep his family afloat through silkworm farming.
Who is Old Tong Bao?
This person exposed the system of nepotism and fraud that gave Gao Jialin his communications cadre job which promptly led to the termination of his position
Who is Keshang's mother?
After studying Chairman Mao's works, Lei Feng wrote in his diary that he lived to do this for others.
What is "to make others live better"?
Lao Dao needs money mainly to pay for this person’s kindergarten.
Who is Tangtang?
Kong Yiji is mocked because he repeatedly fails to pass these government tests.
What are the imperial examinations?
After their harvest of cocoons, this is what happened to Old Tong Bao’s family, the opposite of what they hoped for.
What is ending up in more debt/couldn’t sell their cocoons.
Gao Jialin left this loyal, pure, and nice country girl to pursue social climbing ambitions
Who is Qianzheng?
This small piece of metal was kicked away by Lei Feng but picked up by a county secretary, who taught him to value every bit of it.
What is the spirit of screw?
This city is divided into three different spaces, and each group of people gets a different amount of time awake.
What is Beijing?
This setting in the story reflects the strict class divisions of Chinese society, with wealthy customers sitting inside and poor customers standing outside.
What is the tavern/wine shop?
This is what the silkworms eat in order to grow.
What are mulberry leaves?
This person was a sophisticated, educated, and wealthy city girl who fell in love with Gao Jialin
Who is Yaping?
To encourage Xiao Jiao, Lei Feng showed him a newspaper story about this leader's concern for soldiers' education.
Who is Chairman Mao?
This is the rich and powerful space where Yi Yan lives.
What is First Space?
At the end of the story, Kong Yiji disappears after suffering this crippling punishment for theft.
What is having his legs broken?
This is the type of silkworm that is more expensive and produces more cocoons but Old Tong Bao refuses to use them.
What are foreign silkworms?
Gao Jialin had this job in the rural village.
What is a village school teacher?
Lei Feng wrote this in his diary on November 8, 1960, calling it "the greatest day" of his 22-year life.
What is the Chinese Communist Party?
The story shows that people in different spaces have very different lives because of this social problem.
What is inequality?