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My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critica...more

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Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, like reading novels: before, reading a book without...more

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There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the rules of the day. And because t...more

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Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to her family," which was condemned as a "bourgeoi...more

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Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. The pettiness which dominated...more