Written by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro in 1983, the book Son of the Revolution is a classical masterpiece, which highlights the tribulations of the Chinese people during the Mao’s regime. The book is a first-person narration where Liang explores the challenges of growing up during a revolution. The book points to a strong political influence dotted with violence ignited by the Chinese Communist Party in its quest to gain unparalleled control over the government at the expense of ordinary citizens like Liang. The Communist Party engineers numerous campaigns, which end up hurting Liang’s family ultimately. The book has 22 content-filled chapters, but they can be grouped into three broad categories. Primarily, chapters 1 to 8 major on Liang’s puerility coupled with the damnation that often befalls him simply because his mother is seen as an anti-communist from the right wing of the political divide. This labeling occurs in 1957 following the ‘Flowers Campaign’ where Liang’s mother has to contend with public humiliation. In a bitter turn of events, Liang’s father divorces his humiliated wife, but the author is quick to point out that his father’s move is meant to protect the other family members from being dragged into the politics and mortification directed towards their mother. Liang’s grandma passed on in 1960, and this unfortunate occurrence exposes the vagaries of famine immediately after the Great Leap Forward. In a series of misgivings, a political affright grips the entire community in 1962 after the resurfacing of Chiang Kai-shek, which forces Liang to flee to the rural areas where he experiences the life of a peasant. He later returns to the urban center only to meet corruption for the first time after he is forced to buy his membership in the Young Pioneers club. The group is dubbed an ‘elite association,’ but Liang, despite coming from an ‘outsider’ background, buys his way into it. After this first bribery encounter, Liang exposes how corrupt the Chinese society is at the time. In the fourth chapter, Liang highlights the impacts of the Cultural Revolution of 1966 on his life. In a gripping narration, the reader encounters the moral stress of the revolution on young Liang coupled with the general sad story of the 20th century China. The communist leader, Mao Zedong, regrettably adopts the Cultural Revolution vendetta to defeat his fellow members of the Communist Party who differ with his extremist approaches concerning the remaking of China as a nation. In essence, the revolution is turning against itself as the different factions within the Communist Party wage relentless war on one another. In a blind and poorly thought move, Mao authorizes the vernal Red Guards to take charge and run his ever-growing movement. Unfortunately, the new group of power hungry brood of inexperienced leaders turns their machinery against the Communist Party, which is the very organization they should be protecting and building. This tragic turn of events destroys the party’s structure, its cohesiveness, its governance, and partly, its army, the PLA. Throughout chapters 1 to 8, Liang is always attracting conflict, perhaps due to his parents’ stand against Maoism and communism. In chapter six and seven, Liang’s father is at the center