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However, with the time passed by, 15 years later, the highest level party members in the communist party could not bear his reign for eternity, and a part of people, especially the intellectuals in China, started to get bored with this situation. Also, Mao thought China’s imitation of Soviet style communism went too far and his absolute authority was unstable. As a result, to reinforce his authority, in 1966, Mao started the Cultural Revolution, a disaster to Chinese people and ancient Chinese culture, to further control people’s minds. As the president cannot see and hear the act and speech of all the population, public overwatch was established. The rule of the Cultural Revolution was quite simple: if you find anyone does anything that violate the absolute authority of the Communist Party (generally all the things that not related to communism, including ancient Chinese culture, same-sex speech or behavior), you must report them. Then they will be displayed publicly and executed. According, to Chen Chinfu’s article, that was a time of panic and terror, when everyone became the watchers of other people, and everyone was watched by other people, just like a multi-dimensional Truman Show (Chen, 2015).
In Farewell My Concubine, Xiaolou’s wife Juxian tells Xiaolou to shut his mouth outside the door of home, preventing the troubles. But, as Dieyi was gay/queer, he was certainly the objects of being watched and criticized. Dieyi’s identities created a terror to all the surrounding people. Xiaolou, as his friend and partner, certainly don’t want to be put into this kind of death-threatening trouble. For many time, Xiaolou tried to stop Dieyi being feminine and he became increasingly afraid to stay together with Dieyi. Ultimately, his homophobia and femmephobia are forced to be formed to give himself a reason to leave Dieyi. Even today, the aftermath and the terror of the cultural revolution is still there. In alm