I thought about it that night. Maybe I have changed recently? Maybe because I heard too many sad stories before which all come back to me recently?
I had lived in an area in Shanghai crowed with many well-known people from both parties and from academia. I have many friends from those family backgrounds. I lived next door to 武康路100弄。 From her story you can tell 皮司令是多讲义气！！ 有人性！不管 which party.
Why the author didn't mention 黄逸峰 anymore?? because he became a 右派himself. Huang used to be a KMD general and both a GCD 高干。 I am very familiar with 大院 life. He was a party memeber in 1926 and worked under Zhou and was on and off party list for three times! The final one was in 1941 and 刘少奇是他入党介绍人！When he came in Shanghai he was 华东局交通部长。 Later on he was in trouble and chairman mao even mentioned his name in mao 选。 上海不是出了个黄逸峰吗！ overnight became a "钦犯。“ Later he became 上海社科院院长。 1988 passed away. His wife is (was) 李维汉的妹妹，if I remember correctly.
Since you mentioned 前上海市长曹荻秋. During the cultural revolution he and someone related to me were 关押 together, day and night, in 奉贤 57 "prison."
