What is Dazibao?

During the cultural revolution in China, children at school would plaster the walls with papers called Dazibao, which would involve various writings on Communism and counter-revolutionaries, which were usually geared towards defaming unpopular teachers. That isn't what I'm after, here. The Dazibao put up on this blog is meant to be distributed throughout as many schools as possible in order to get people to join our cause. The basic concept of using short essays as a method of communication in schools inspired the name. That, and the fact that I finished Born Red not too long before ELF was started.

Each Dazibao is written so that it should be able to fit on a single sheet of paper in your average word processor (you may have to use a smaller font to get it to fit). Then, it should be e-mailed or printed and physically given to anyone and everyone who might be interested, including random students at school, particularly those who might be interested in actually reading the thing all the way through. Also, if you're involved in any online communities, and I mean any online communities at all, put a link up every now and again. Put links in your forum signature to the latest ELF Dazibao and you could triple our numbers overnight.

You, the people who believe in this system, are the people who are going to make it work. The first step in that direction is just getting the word out. So get it out. Get us some support.

-Ashen