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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, 2
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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; incident, 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
Yangzi valley, 4
Yingtai, 255
Yixing, 217–18
Yunnan, 4
Yunqing, 44
Yunzaobang River, 167, 335