History Final

In this semester, we read many incredible survival stories of the youths under disastrous historical crisis. These characters, we read about, went through enormous of hardships and fears; but with courage and determination, many of them survived and lived on. However, in many cases, these characters did not begin their lives in miseries. Many of them, in fact, were born in the comfort of wealth and privilege. In this essay, I will discuss four wealthy …

…taken away when her father openly criticized Mao’s “backyard furnaces”, which was, in theory, to collect scrap metals and melt them into industrial used steels. It failed miserably; what was worse, it created a mass famine in China. In 1965 during the Cultural Revolution, both of her parents fell under “black label” because they were senior officials, and which made them “class enemies”. Soon, they were put through many denunciation meetings and were often detained.