The Revenge of Heaven evolved within the context of the much broader scale, in terms of time frame and substance, research on the PRC being engaged in by Ivan D. London and his wife Miriam London. The Londons had not anticipated publishing a special research account of their summer 1969 to early autumn 1970 interviews of the former Red Guard (aka Ken Ling)The Revenge. Methodology p. 1024 and neither did their respondent envisage planning a novel about his experiences as Mao's ″little General″. He still had to finish middle school.
