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Written by Chu 朱 on 2025-02-01 at 01:17

Hey Chinese Americans,

You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?

If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.

All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.

There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.

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Written by David Frank on 2025-02-01 at 03:24

@chu my grandparents were college professors at the time, so naturally they were punished for speaking factually, it is not until Deng took over that things recovered. I didn’t hear too many episodes from them except for praise of Deng, but my parents certainly experienced quite some years of those traumas.

I don’t know if there are much takeaway from CR for Americans: because“keeping your heads down” were what kept people from punishment, this is a far cry from the activist culture US is in.

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