Meet Nongbo, a 19 year old living in Beijing, China, a college student who has dropped out of college and became a Red Guard. He was extremely devoted to Chairman Mao and would do anything to be on Chairman Mao’s good side. This journal recounts the experience and conflicts of the fictional character from the rise of the Red Guards to the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Instead of a whole communist government, which was what the Chinese government was aiming for during the Cultural Revolution, capitalism has been re-introduced to China. This is because the Chinese government found out China was way behind the global superpowers and needed to boost their economy. The effects of the Cultural Revolution could be both good and bad. On the good side, China had established a one-party system that controls every government affair. On the other hand, a whole generation of people did not get their completion of education.