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哥哥喷涌而出

Revolution Comes to Zhang Chun Village,The Communist victory and the Land Reform were violent. The author’s family went about negotiating for a new class status as public trials and executions took place.

使饥饿

Heretical

FLACK

Things That Bind,During the collectivization of the 60s, people requested for all kinds of goods from donors overseas. Under the new political circumstances, the giving and receiving of goods and remittances were subject to new rules and considerations.

后退

,My Sister’s Grave,The narrator’s sister laments that she had been abandoned while her parents and younger siblings lived in comfort and prosperity in Malaysia. It opens a floodgate of grievances: her hard life at the commune, the starvation, her husband’s incarceration and death.

mortgage

使激动

Patrimony

Eigentums- und Vermögensdelinquenz After their wedding, the doctor and nurse had spent their honeymoon at the coal pit looking after miners infected with black lung disease. The revolution was built on the fear and terror and the ‘beauty’ of its cause, in Edmund Burke’s phrasing.

护航舰

Moving Story,ian Chinese had a similar history. Under British colonial rule, Malaya was a favourite destination for Chinese and Indian migrants and labourers. Immigration nurtured a sensibility that prized their economic achievement and journeying across oceans and land.

intrigue