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The Good College Student 好大学生
Introduction The Wang family valued education and believed in making a success through learning. Wang Shuangquan's grandfather had studied at a traditional private school, and his father was an elementary school teacher. In the early 1980s, few rural families had such a strong educational background. Shuangquan's name meant that he would excel in both the literary and martial arts. In China, where officialdom holds a deep-rooted prestige, what family, in the city or the countryside, does not wan
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Looking Far Off at the Sea Breeze 远望，海滨的风
Children who grew up in the countryside in the eighties seem to have loneliness in their bones. Nine out of ten of their parents had little education, and the children were often subjected to stern lectures day after day. When adults spoke of the city, their eyes held only the drab, monotonous color of soil. There was no color or variety. They always felt they were different from the people there: farming was so lowly, while city workers were so respectable! Zhang Wenbin was one of those childre
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The Li Clan 李氏家族
On the eve of Liberation, our Li clan stood on the Huaibei Plain, a family both admired and feared. My great-grandfather belonged to the Huai generation, and he had seven full brothers, each of them renowned in his own right. My great-granduncle Li Huaihai, the eldest of them, served in Beijing as deputy minister of railways for the Kuomintang. My great-grandfather, Li Huaikuo, was third in line and served as the head of our local township. My sixth great-granduncle, Li Huairen, was a learned ma
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