Linda Liu

eBook, ePUB

Frame of Mind in the Mao Era of China - a Memoir (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This life story of Linda Liu covers her youth, career, marriage, and motherhood during the Mao era of China. Linda delights in spending her early childhood life in a traditional family in the countryside, especially in her maternal grandpas home. But in 1947, Lindas grandpa is declared in the rich-peasant class, and then the government confiscates his land and house, and the seven family members escaped to Beijing. Linda loves her courtyard home and the surrounding area close to Tiananmen Square. In the 1950s, as a teenager, Linda participates in various social activities and trusts Mao and believes the Chinese Communist partys propagandas that communism will be carried out in China for the good of all. But her father loses his business and job because of the socialist transformation of capitalist enterprises. Millions people starve to death during Three Years of Great Chinese Famine, and Linda also starves and suffers from TB. She doubts if socialism can save people. Linda finds her soul mate at her university, and they love and support each other whatever happens. In 1965, Linda is assigned to Xinjiang with too little work and is separated from her family for seven years because people do not have freedom of speech, religion, job change, and residence under Maos class struggle theory. During the Culture Revolution, many people die and suffer persecution, including her mother, who is wrongly struggled against almost to death. Working in an institute, Linda experiences a typical intellectual life. After the anti-Rightist struggle, intellectuals are in an awkward position, which leads many to die in middle ages from lack of food and mental pressure. After Mao, she and people wish China will have a big change.

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Autor

Linda Liu was born in 1938 in China and had lived there until she came to the United States in 1985. In China, she spent most of her time in Beijing, but she was assigned to a remote area located in Xinjiang for seven years after graduated from Peking University in 1965, and then returned to Beijing for undertaking research in an institute for thirteen years. In the United States, she was engaged as a visiting scholar at UIUC. After she earned her MS, she worked in companies as an IT professional for years. She is an American citizen and lives with her husband in California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514449998
• Artikelnr.: 52585339