cute... my friends have been telling me this all the time. so i started to believe it myself :P

Most people think it's wrong. The Communist Party admits it too. In the school, history teachers like to talk about it. There are so many stories about it, and of course most of them are sad. They told us how it was a big mistake and how people suffered from it. I had a "Military Theory" course last year. The teacher is a Communist and he served in the army. He loves the Party and always has an objective view to everything the party has done (I believe he studied Maoism really hard). He liked to talk about the Cultural Revolution (by his own stories) very much because he grew up in that period and experienced a lot. The politics courses usually have much more details about the Cultural Revolution and they focus on the serious consequences. (There's usually a whole chapter about the Party's mistake.) In general, we are always told "we should remember and learn from the mistakes we made and that's the only way we can make our country better". So that's about what we are taught in our history and politics courses. I think it's not bad. As to the courses about Chinese culture, teachers hold the view that the Cultural Revolution changed our traditional values and they all seem a bit angry about that. I just googled the book, and I found that Jung Chang is from Sichuan, that she studied in my university and that she was in my department..... looks like there are a lot of controversies about the book. Some people like it, but some others say it's one-sided. I just downloaded the ebook. It is banned, but it's not difficult to find it on the Internet. I hope my answer is helpful. Good luck with your Chinese study!

我从未去过你的国家，但是我很想去。只有一个问题，就是我得一个人去。你能不能跟我介绍一下你的城市，包括附近的宾馆，以及我近一个月的大概花费。

welcome to chengdu~~ the food here is fantastic, and people in chengdu are very nice. there is beautiful scenery, beautiful girls and many historical sites. there is a saying, 自古巴蜀出文人, which means there have been a lot of literatis since ancient time. there are also many other interesting places in sichuan. it's very convenient to travel around chengdu. besides, the weather here is good. the air is a little bit wet so people here have very good skin. there are many language training schools, universities and colleges. you can easily find a job here.

当然有了！我就有个很好很好的朋友，后来我俩从友情直接升华到亲情了 不知道还在不在您这个范畴内。。。

如果能够较好地表达自己的意思，但是听起来不地道，这个问题还不大 首先得把语音基础打好。去买本语音教材，先把每个音都练标准。这个过程很枯燥，但是非常重要，每一个音都得反复练，平时每说一个单词也都要注意发音是否到位 语音差不多了接下来就练语调，看电影听新闻什么的都可以，边听边跟着读，注意语调的把握。 我是英语专业的，我们都这样练，语音关一过，语调什么的就没多大问题了 但是如果你还不能很好地表达自己想说的话，那练好口语就是一个很艰难的过程了。。。 首先是词汇，大多数人都这样，讲着讲着单词不会了，就说不下去了，所以词汇得过关。 然后就是语法，我们受汉语影响，讲英语往往忽略时态、人称，这个得多加注意 还有一些习惯表达，这个多看看美剧就行了 大家一路走来都不容易啊，加油！