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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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A Long-Awaited Son | |
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Father as a Young Rebel | |
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My Nanny | |
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A Nice Neighborhood | |
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Preoccupied Parents | |
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Once upon a Time | |
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Seven "Grandmas" and Ten "Grandpas" | |
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My First Year in School | |
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Values Coming from Picture Books | |
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The Gathering Winds of the Storm | |
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Red Guards at Home | |
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"Good" Reasons against "Bad" People | |
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Behind the Bedroom Door | |
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The Early Storm Barely Hits Our Family | |
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Surviving the Storm | |
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A Legendary Man | |
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The Rebels Didn't Get What They Wanted | |
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A Family Torn Apart | |
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Visiting My Parents in Their Labor Camps | |
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My Sister in the Countryside | |
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Life for "Art's" Sake | |
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Nanny Gets a New Job | |
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Brainwashing at School | |
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Home, Sweet Home | |
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Rice Pudding Almost Leads to Suicide | |
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A Former Member of the Communist Party | |
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"A Man Can Die Once, and Only Once!" | |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | |
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100 Years after the Paris Commune | |
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My Mother Loses Her Freedom Again | |
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Six Families in One House | |
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A Trip to Visit My Redetained Mother | |
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It Was Too Late | |
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"What Do You Want to Be?" | |
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It Was More Than Just Learning English | |
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A Television Crew from Hawaii | |
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"Nine-Pound Granny" | |
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Mother Comes Home | |
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Thousands of Miles for Nothing | |
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"We, the True Marxists ..." | |
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My Sister's Long Journey | |
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"Good Will Be Rewarded with Good, and Evil with Evil" | |
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Letters That Helped Others | |
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Not Ready to Make the Pledge | |
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Millions Arise after One Man's Death | |
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Life Goes On | |
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My First Job | |
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Over Two Hundred Billion Hours Wasted | |
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Back to Work Again at the Age of Sixty-three | |
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New Students: The Hope of the Nation | |
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"I Want to Right This Wrong!" | |
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The Forbidden Fruit | |
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A Chilly Spring | |
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People First | |
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"Democracy Lost" | |
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Bitter Love | |
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To Be, or Note to Be | |
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The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind | |
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Challenge behind Death | |
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Two Worlds | |
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"I Have No Other Choice, Because I'm the Commissar!" | |
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"Purifying the Party": An Impossible Task | |
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The "Red," "Black," or "Golden" Road | |
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It's Time to Go! | |
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The Departure | |
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Epilogue | |
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Index | |