- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this passage, Zhuli, Sparrow, and Kai have stayed up late at the Conservatory drinking wine. Zhuli is reflecting on the increasing political tension at the Conservatory, where the students are becoming more and more critical of their teachers and fellow classmates whom they deem counterrevolutionary. Zhuli believes that Kai and Sparrow have “unassailable” class backgrounds because, in Mao’s Communist China, revolutionary identity is inherited through families. In other words, people like Sparrow and Kai don’t have to do anything to prove their own revolutionary ideology, since their fathers have already done that for them. This is a highly hypocritical…