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The Short Story Of Harbin's Saboteur
I chose to write about the short story, Saboteur. This story is set in Harbin, which is in Northern China, during the cultural revolution in the 1960’s. The main character is Mr. Chiu, who was just married to his wife. They are eating lunch while waiting for the train to take them to Muji City for their honeymoon, when an officer throws a bowl of tea and it lands on him and his bride. He asks why they did that and he is accused of causing a scene and is put in a jail cell until he confesses that he made a mistake and won’t do it again. He has a rescuer come to get him and they tie him to a tree in the yard of the jail and beat him. The reason why the setting is so important in this story is because it was not uncommon for this to happen in
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