Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir

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by Chen Huiqin


  descendants, 7, 197, 277, 296; bundle, 303–5, 338; pot, 186, 338

  Dianpu Canal, 161, 334

  Dianshan Lake, 161, 334

  Dongfeng Brigade, 121, 334

  Donghua University, 252

  Dragon Boat Festival, 217, 312

  E

  East Compound, 19–22, 85, 94, 96, 97, 122, 134–35, 137, 169, 192

  East River Aunt, 18, 47, 333

  electrical pump station, 104, 107n3, 163

  Elizabeth, 262–63

  end-of-the-year family dinner, 285, 337

  F

  family: altar, 125; planning, 86; plot, 78–80, 85, 99–100, 105, 107n1, 130, 139, 170, 178, 205, 209, 271, 275–76, 338

  Family Responsibility System, 152, 205

  father: accountant, 45, 63, 67, 77, 123, 148; belief in education, 38, 71, 98, 158; and Communist revolution, 41–44, 49–51, 63–64, 67–71, 127–28; Daoist priest, 13, 23–24, 44; death, 150; death anniversary, 285–86, 326; head of South Hamlet, 33–34; keeping me (Chen Huiqin) at home, 14; 53, 54, 95; paper house for, 288–89; reasonable man, 22–23, 30–31, 51, 109, 110, 111; reburial of remains, 275–77; sense of responsibility, 13, 15; and shaman, 286–87; stomach cancer, 148–49; suicide attempt, 144–48; wife’s death, 132–33

  father-in-law, 8, 136, 141

  Fei Xiaotong, 4

  feudal ideas, 125

  filial children, 296, 331; daughter, 174; duty, 132, 294; son, 46; filial piety, 4, 149, 295

  Five Elements, the, 62, 150n2

  “five protection” welfare, 161, 338

  food rationing, 95, 112

  Fortune Gate Room, 21, 94, 114, 338

  fortune-teller, 53, 62, 292

  four categories of class enemies, 51, 337

  Four Clean-ups Movement, 114, 337

  funeral, 20, 49, 85, 132, 134, 135, 136, 150, 173, 175, 237n2, 286; modern, 294–96

  G

  gas: lamp, 91; pipeline, 227, 310; tank, 227–28, 236–37, 310

  Gear Wheel Factory, 250

  Ge Chenghui, Dr., 73

  General Electric Company, 301

  gift, 54, 156, 165, 242, 250, 252–53, 312, 316; appreciation, 169, 186, 224, 303, 307, 336; Chinese New Year’s, 312, 337; congratulation, 249; for the dead, 291; for first birthday banquet, 191; maternity, 29, 36, 64, 105, 230, 337; wedding, 184, 185, 224, 302, 336

  “good-citizen” identification card, 40

  grain land, 203, 205, 254, 337

  grandfather (maternal), 16, 18

  grandfather (paternal), 13, 14, 22, 285

  grandmother (maternal), 16, 18–19, 35, 49, 59, 61, 105–6

  grandmother (paternal), 21, 37, 70, 74, 117–18, 330; ceremony to remember, 178; death and funeral, 173–75; death anniversary, 284, 285; and enlightened mind, 12–13; and Grandpa Bai, 14; making room for grandchildren, 169, 171; and my (Chen Huiqin’s) marriage, 54–56, 59, 60, 61; and sons, 13; well-connected person, 31–32

  Grandpa Bai, 14, 174, 330

  Great Leap Forward, 8, 88, 100, 105, 112, 168

  Great World Amusement Center, 76

  Green Bamboo Cemetery, 275–77, 335

  Guan Yin, 292–93,

  H

  Hainan, 256

  Hall of Honesty and Sincerity, 60, 336

  Hang Genquan, 43

  Hangzhou, 227

  Hanming, 131, 169–70, 174, 186, 197, 205, 223, 245

  Harrison, Henrietta, 6

  Helen Community, 278, 279n2, 307, 309–11, 315, 320–22, 326–27, 328, 329, 334

  “helping-child noodles,” 192, 232

  Hershatter, Gail, 5

  He Wenxiu, 83

  high-stage cooperative, 76, 108, 336

  Hinton, William, 4

  Hong Kong, 238–39, 259

  Hongqiao Airport, 226, 257

  Hongying, 104

  house building: extension, 109–10; seven-beam house, 170; three-room house, 15, 170; two-story house, 171, 178–82, 195, 203, 208, 214

  Hsu, Francis, 4

  Huangpu River, 2, 161

  Huangshan, 312

  Huating Town, 289, 334

  Huijun, 63, 82–83, 105

  Huilong Middle School, 250–51, 253

  Huizhou, 29, 334

  husband: activist, 8, 63–65, 67, 73; and Beibei, 191, 240, 303, 307; and Chen Li, 230, 230–32, 316–18; commune leader, 99, 100, 111, 112, 116, 158, 210; Cultural Revolution, 126–27, 131–46, 151, 154; Four Clean-ups Movement, 114–16; Great Leap Forward, 90, 93, 94, 109; health problems, 242, 266–67, 280–84; marriage, 59–63; retirement and travel, 249–50, 254–56; and Shebao, 111, 165–67, 219–21, 223–24, 228, 248, 308; and Shezhen, 71–72, 116, 158–60, 176–77, 179, 183, 184, 188, 189, 226, 238–39, 258–68; and Shezhu, 93–94, 114–15, 118, 178, 184–85; urban apartments, 219–20, 228, 240–41; vasectomy, 112

  I

  Indian, 28

  industrialization, 3

  inheritance, 4, 7, 31, 53–54

  initial-stage cooperative, 67, 76, 336

  Internet, 192, 260, 319, 327

  iPhone, 317

  iron-rice-bowl job, 308

  irrigation canal, 84–85, 104, 163–64

  J

  Japan, 316–19

  Japanese, 4, 6, 35–40, 42, 51nn1–3; company, 297; delegation, 165; girl, 318; language, 316; money, 318

  Ji brothers, 39, 42–44, 52n4, 137–38, 150n1

  Jiading, xiin1, 2, 33, 35, 43, 261, 264–66, 290, 308, 315, 317; County, ix, x, 3, 4, 13, 39, 42, 85, 168, 201, 208; District, 241, 245, 289; Town, 15, 27, 30, 40, 44, 49, 58, 59, 63–64, 69, 73–74, 80, 89, 101, 106, 113, 114, 144, 155, 157, 159, 167, 171, 176, 187–88, 207, 209–12, 219, 223, 228, 230, 234, 236, 243, 244–47, 250–51, 258, 270, 275, 285–86, 297–302, 321, 328

  Jiading Central Hospital, 290, 313

  Jiading District Archives, x

  Jiading Industrial Sector, 271, 275,

  Jiading Maternity Hospital, 229

  Jiading Number One High School, 239–40,

  Jiading People’s Hospital, 131, 135, 136, 180,

  Jiafeng Textile Mill, 14, 27, 40, 44, 133, 334

  Jianbang Chemical Machinery Plant, 210, 212, 288

  Jianbang Town, 2, 209, 226, 234, 241, 248, 251, 334

  Jiangsu, 30, 171, 217, 230, 286

  Jiangxi, 4, 255

  Jiaotong University, 299

  Jifei, 138–41, 143, 147, 148, 150n1, 152, 337; Agent Organization, 137, 142, 144

  Jinshan, 114–18, 334; Petroleum Plant, 198

  K

  Kaiyuan, 70, 82, 171, 197

  Keith, 261–63

  Kentucky Fried Chicken, 299

  Kitchen God, 19, 55, 62, 130–31

  L

  landlord, 4, 6–7, 49–50, 52n11, 56, 77, 142, 170, 171, 196, 202

  Land Reform, ix, 3–4, 6–8, 47–51, 56, 68, 108, 109, 137, 160, 170

  Lantern Festival, 134, 294

  Leslie, 263

  Lianzhen, 44

  Liberation, 18, 19, 40, 44–46, 50, 53, 55–56, 62–63, 68, 77, 84, 108, 116, 137, 144, 189, 271, 274, 330

  Li Compound, 228, 234, 236, 245, 248, 249, 335

  Lijiang Brigade, 142–43, 334

  Limin(g), 69, 87n3, 334; Brigade, 99, 105, 109, 138, 140, 202; Elementary School, 84, 176; High-Stage Cooperative, 90

  Linshe, 62–63, 94, 152, 290, 327. See also Ah Lin, Chen Huiqin, Chen Tian’e

  Little Aunt, 14–16, 37, 40, 132–33, 145–47, 174, 178, 223, 237, 270–71, 275, 288, 296, 333

  Little-child Bridge, 251

  Little Red Guards, 154

  Lixin Brigade, 131, 335

  Longevity Star, 191–92, 232

  Loutang Town, 2, 43, 96, 241, 327, 335. See also under commune

  Lushan, 255

  Lu Weixin, 42

  M

  Malu, 104, 335; Town, 241. See also under commune

  Mao Zedong, 4; Chairman, 127, 128, 173

  marriage, 4, 6, 18, 47, 104, 183, 205, 219, 280, 302–3, 307, 308; arranged, 45–46; certificate
, 61, 62, 105; close-relative, 85–86; law, 5, 45–46, 52n8, 53–54, 83, 134; matrilocal, 7–8, 60–62, 105, 295, 296, 301

  Master Yang, 221, 223, 232

  Master Yuan, 213, 221, 232

  Master Zhao, 214

  matchmaker, 55, 60, 61, 83, 252–53

  Medtronic, 283

  meeting-ritual money, 61, 169, 186, 223, 303, 304, 307, 337

  Meifang, 76, 195, 197, 205, 221, 276, 287

  Meilong Town, 161, 335

  Meiying, 84, 86, 104, 207–8

  Mid-Autumn Festival, 23, 294, 312

  Minjie, 299–307, 307

  miscarriage, 99

  modern conveniences, 105, 112

  monks, 291–92

  mother: bond with daughter (Chen Huiqin) and grandchildren, 28, 35–36, 69, 70, 72, 74, 78–79, 99, 108, 113, 119–20, 121, 123, 131–34, 330, 331; child labor, 12; death, 131, 132–34; death anniversary, 285–86, 326; family background, 16–19; Great Leap Forward, 88, 92–97; health problems, 28, 81, 88, 95–96, 131–32; help at home, 65, 71, 76, 81, 116, 118–19, 121–22, 129–30; and matrilocal marriage, 14, 31, 53, 132, reburial of remains, 275–77; and a shaman and a ritual, 289–92

  Movement to Cleanse Class Ranks, 137, 150n1

  mutual aid team, 45, 63–67

  Myrdal, Jan, 4

  N

  Nanjing, 71, 84, 139

  National Day, 139, 144, 284, 318, 319

  New Marriage Law. See under marriage

  New York City, 266–67

  night school, 44, 55, 62, 82, 84

  Ningbo, 312

  Ning Lao Tai-tai, 5–6

  North Hamlet, 19, 28, 36, 41, 46, 48, 50, 55, 62, 65, 70, 81, 84, 86, 90, 93, 97, 104, 111, 117, 126, 140, 183, 208, 272, 334

  O

  Office to Rectify the Communist Party, 210, 212, 246, 338

  104 Document, 166, 167, 172n1

  P

  Pan Guanghua, 47–48

  Pan Shouwen, 47–48

  Pandai Brigade, 211, 253, 335

  Panjia Mama, 70, 87n5, 111

  paper house, 9, 288–89, 295

  paper money, 85, 134, 175, 178, 278, 284, 285, 290, 295, 326

  peasant, 9, 64, 72, 75, 90, 100, 104, 106, 121, 127, 131, 137–38, 155, 163, 168, 176, 198, 202, 203, 210, 214, 238; association, 42, 47, 73; backgrounds, 219, 308; cadres, 93; calendar, 178; experience, x; family, 3, 4, 6, 165; fate, 168, 239; house, 114; life, 151, 162; middle, 48; and pension, 275; poor, 7–8, 47, 48, 49, 50; rich, 7–8, 48, 77; -run furnaces, 92; spouses, 219; stock, 251; teachers, 126, 349

  Penglang Town, 39, 43, 335

  Pengsha Factory, 234–35

  pension, 9, 249, 270, 275, 283

  People’s Liberation Army, 40

  piecework reward system, 199–201, 210

  policy, 107n1, 109, 127, 185, 220, 228; Cultural Revolution admission, 9; economic reform, 199, 215n1, 286; land reform, 47; local government; one-child-one-family, 86, 191; “Three Fixe,” 75; unified purchasing and marketing, 72–73

  production team, 99, 102, 103, 114, 125–26, 142, 151, 159, 162, 170, 190, 201–3; leader, 101, 116, 128, 152, 156, 168, 200, 204

  Pruitt, Ida, 5–6

  public project, 84, 153, 161, 163

  Pudong, 301, 303; Airport, 267, 269

  Putong Elementary School, 233

  Q

  Qian Caiqing, 44

  Qingpu, 35, 36, 335

  Qilong, 188

  Qinghe Road, 210, 335

  R

  Red Guards, 8, 125, 126, 154

  relocation, ix, 270–72, 274–75, 289

  responsibility land, 203–4, 338

  Resting Horse Bridge, 36–37

  ritual, 8, 10, 13, 33, 131, 150, 272, 281, 284, 285, 286, 287, 326; to calm the homesite, 324–25, 338; chanting, 23, 290–91, 294–95, 336

  Ruijin Hospital, 281–82, 335

  S

  Salt Lake City, 225, 261–62, 264

  San Francisco, 261, 268; airport, 267, 268

  “sent-down” cadres, 105, 338

  sexagenary cycle, 149, 150n2, 230, 337

  Shaanxi, 5

  shaman, 9, 286–87, 289–90, 292

  Shandong, 4, 5, 44, 254

  Shanghai, ix, 2, 3, 9, 15, 33, 35, 41, 42, 51nn1, 2, 76, 83, 89, 90, 100, 105, 111, 121, 134, 135, 162, 171, 173, 184, 192, 194, 201, 219, 223, 240, 245, 248, 257, 258, 294, 297, 300, 301, 309–12, 315, 322, 323, 328; County, 161, 308

  Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute, 157, 159, 187–88

  Shanghai Tumor Hospital, 149

  Shanghai University, 247, 316

  Shanghai University of Science and Technology, 167, 195, 217, 246, 308

  Shanghai Yimin Food Company, 206

  Shanxi, 4, 7

  Shebao, 120, 189, 218, 298; appendicitis, 207–8; and Beibei, 191, 239, 298–99, 304–6; birth, 111–12, business development, 246, 291, 309–15; care for and support of parents, 281–83, 322–23; and Chen Li, 229–33, 247, 269, 316–19; changing jobs, 308–9; in Chengdong, 165–66; college entrance exams, 167; engagement and wedding, 217–25, 225; fever, broken bone, nickname, 120–21; and grandparents’ remains, 276; name change, 127; near drowning experience, 163–65; peddling repair service, 235–36; and preventive vaccines, 117; and Shanghai University of Science and Technology, 167, 195, 246; and “standing bucket”, 119; urban apartments, 219–20, 226, 228, 246–48, 249; and village relocation, 272; and warping shop, 124–25; and Yunzaobang River-digging project, 167–68

  Shezhen, 89, 109, 189; birth, 70; clothes-making factory, 155–56; Cultural Revolution, 125–27, 141–43; engagement and wedding, 176–77, 179, 181, 182, 183–84; Great Leap Forward, 92–98; history professor, 238–39; home visit, 226–27; job in Beijing, 159–60; and jumping frog, 72; kindergarten, 88; measles, 117; name change, 127; and parents’ visits, 177, 192–95, 249–50, 258–69; as peasant, 125, 155; and ritual in Wuxing Temple, 290–91; sabbatical semester, 321, 323–27; sewing machine, 154–55; Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute, 157–59, 187–88; and Shebao, 167; University of Utah, 225; and visiting foreigners, 188–90; willfulness, 80–81, 123–24, 166; Zhuqiao Central Elementary School, 103, 116

  Shezhu, 109, 277, 298; accountant, 311; and Beibei, 190–91, 214–15, 227, 232, 233, 239, 240, 299–308; birth, 93–97; care for and support of parents, 282–83, 286, 289–91, 293, 323–25; engagement and wedding, 177–78, 184–86, 185; in Helen Community, 271–72; high school, 161; and housing development company, 230, 234–35, 241, 246; measles, shoulder dislocation, asthma, 117–18; name change, 127; public projects, 161–163; sideline production, 208–9, 222, 236; urban apartments, 236, 244–45; Zhuqiao Farm Machine Plant, 163, 190

  Sichuan, 300, 303, 312–13

  Singapore, 66, 189

  small-town social security, 275, 338

  snail-eliminating team, 81

  Song Family Village, 17–18, 47, 335

  South Gate, 211–14, 217–20, 222, 226, 228, 252, 310, 335

  South Hamlet, 19, 33, 41, 46, 54, 67, 84–85, 88, 93, 97, 99, 104, 113, 223, 232, 272, 278, 335

  speaking-bitterness meeting, 47, 49

  Statue of Liberty, 266

  stove: brick, 19, 21, 91, 122, 129–31, 158, 189, 220, 223; coal, 184, 207, 212–13, 228; improvised, 92; kerosene, 95, 212–13, 235; movable, 19, 338

  “study course,” 137–39, 141–42, 144–48, 338

  Summer Palace, 194

  Sun Yongqiu, 165, 241

  Sun Zhongxian, 83

  supermarket, 67, 327

  superstition, 44, 131

  Suzhou, 302

  Swiss watch, 184

  T

  Taishan, 254–55

  Taitou, 4

  Taiying, 84, 104–5

  Tang Family Village, 16, 43, 49, 65, 335

  Taoming, 196

  “ten-thousand-people meeting,” 88–89

  ten-thousand-yuan family, 208

  “thousand pieces of gold,” 93–94

  Three Fixes. See under policy

  Tiananmen Square, 194; incide
nt, 229–30

  Tokyo, 316, 318–19

  traditions, 12, 31, 85, 324,

  Twin Towers, the, 266

  “tyrant landlord”, 50, 52n10, 57

  U

  uncle, 61, 158, 186, 223, 304–5, 333; Beibei’s, 230, 298, 300; Bobo, 20, 32, 36, 50, 68, 89–90, 106, 111, 168–69, 174; father’s, 7, 22, 48, 49; Gufu, 145–47, 270; Niangjiu, 18–19, 49, 223; Yifu, 17, 50–51, 57, 183

  unified purchasing and marketing. See under policy

  United States, the, ix–x, 9, 73, 176, 187, 225, 238–39, 258–61, 265, 267, 269, 293, 316, 318–19, 321

  United Nations, 266

  University of Massachusetts Lowell, 3

  University of Utah, 225, 262

  V

  visa, 259–61, 317

  Volkswagen, 245, 293; Santana, 310

  W

  Waigang, 2, 51, 55, 64, 93, 139, 153, 275, 290, 335. See also under commune

  Wang Family Village. See Wangjialong

  Wangfujing, 194

  Wangjialong, ix, 2, 12, 28, 35, 38, 40–43, 46–48, 53–54, 59, 63, 69, 77, 83, 88, 90, 99, 104–5, 112, 114, 137, 140, 156, 165, 194–95, 197, 209–11, 219–20, 235, 258, 271–72, 275, 285, 315, 327, 329, 335

  Wang Xi’e, 85

  Wang Zhicheng, Dr., 73

  warehouse keeper, 102, 151–52, 204

  warping shop, 327; in the collective period, 102–3, 124, 129, 145; before liberation, 26, 44; in the 1980s, 179, 181, 198–99

  West Compound, 19–22, 49, 60, 62, 68, 108, 116, 122, 125, 137, 169–70, 192

  West Gate, 15, 25, 28, 49, 58, 258, 335

  West Gate Cremation Station, 132, 136, 175, 294–96

  West River Aunt, 17–18, 50, 112, 333

  “worker-peasant-soldier” student, 157

  work-point, 77–78, 101–3, 125, 131, 153–54, 156, 159, 176, 200–202

  Wu Mei, 90

  Wuxing Temple, 290–91, 335

  X

  Xianlin, 209

  Xiaomei, 83

  Xiao Xie, 298; and Beibei, 298; care for and support of parents-in-law, 281–83, 322–23, 326; and Chen Li, 229–33, 247, 316–19; engagement and wedding, 219–225, 225; urban apartments, 219–20, 226, 228, 246–48, 249

  Xijing River, 17, 145, 335

  Xincheng, 27, 240–42, 244–46, 253–54, 269–72, 275, 278, 286, 299, 305, 307, 311, 320–24, 326, 328, 335

  Xingying, 97

  Xiuqin, 84

  Y

  Yan Family Temple, 44, 63, 82, 125

  Yan Shoufu, 32–33, 63, 142–43

  Yang Family Temple, 42, 125

  Yang Ji’an, 73, 113

  Yang, Martin, 4

  Yang Xi, 191, 234, 237n1. See also Beibei

  Yangzhou, 230

 

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