Fang Fang places the positions next to one another;
she does not judge superficially.
Her attitude can only be read between the lines, which certainly has something to do with the circumstances of the publication: after all, the topic of the Cultural Revolution in China is delicate.
Fang Fang's plea against repression and against the (un) clarification of history was then ostracized in China as well. Incidentally, this novel is no less about the massive cultural and economic upheavals that literally took place within a generation. From communism to predatory capitalism.