From a little book i read this week:
“Scarcely believable is this tale, which I, nevertheless, have on excellent authority.
Red Guards found a Chinese intellectual who had been educated in the West;
they charged him with being too fond of ballroom dancing. To punish him,
they made him Dance on a ballroom floor for hours – with a corpse. “
Encounters With Chinese Writers, 1984, Annie Dillard