Suffer Little Children

A world in which Maria Montessori births China's successor to Homo sapiens.

The party’s exquisite ‘Citizen Soldier’, born from fears of defective DNA.

功成十字血成溪
[When the work of the cross was done, blood flowed like a river.]
千丈恩流分自西
[Grace from the West flowed a thousand yards deep.]
身列四衙半夜路
[On the midnight road he was subjected to four trials.]
徒方三背兩番鸡
[Before the rooster crowed twice, three times betrayed by a disciple.]

五百鞭达寸肌裂
[Five hundred lashes tore every inch of skin.]
六尺悬垂二盜齐
[Two thieves hung on either side, six feet high.]
慘恸八垓惊九品
[Sadness greater than any had ever known.]
七言一毕万灵啼
[Seven words, one completed task, ten thousand spirits weep.]

—基督之死 [The Death of Christ], Emperor Kangxi (1654—1722)

TRANSCRIPT: Resolution on the Current Situation Concerning the Building of a Global Socialist Harmonious Society by Implementing Comrade Maria Montessori’s Absorbent Mind to Nurture the New One China Policy.

PRESENTED AT: The Eighth Plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.