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Book Introduction: A Fool’s Song is the epitome of underclass life, which is full of grief at separation and joy in union as well as ups and downs, deriving from ordinary educated family before the first 30 years of Chinese mainland’s Reform. It is a long and essayistic biography depicting the unforgettable experience of the author lived in that tough era. A long fantastic history is composed of funny, absurd and stupid storiettes, which is just as wonderful as TV series. From the intelligent child with pure dream to the youth, the author struggled with hazards in life despite his illness and found a way out doggedly because of being trapped in the mire. Such a tearful and miserable experience was a hairbreadth escape and shook the person mind with frustrations and hardships. This book reveals the sadness, the obsession and flatter of belief as well as the consequent enormous resistance and damage acted by all previous political movements at the grass roots level, especially the Great Cultural Revolution. Through numerous affairs and a wide range of historical files, an assorted picture of social activities of the grass roots in Mao Zedong era was outlined in the book, which focused on the intense social status and concentrated on the deep thinking of social problems. The book also reveals the essence of the Cultural Revolution, which is billions of people were instigated to eliminate dissidents and purge bureaucrats by Mao Zedong who was by virtue of the prestige of being worshiped infinitely, and finally the evil bureaucrats reset and then retaliated the insurgent masses. The contents of the book are positive, and some reviews not only are the sigh of predecessor but also have a strong shock and inspiration for the readers.
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