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1949, a bourgeois girl

 

1952, working with peasants in the Land Reform

 

Author and Jack Chen, 1958

Author (lower left), 1960

   

Jack Chen, author, and son Jay, Beijing 1961

 

1968, the slum house

1968 the Man family courtyard in the village of Upper Felicity

Spring of 1971, back from exile, with Jack and me in front of our apartment

1972, my passport photo, preparing to cross the Pacific to USA

 

1980, Book party for the publishing of "The Dragon's Village"

 

My granddaughter Erita in 2005, nicknamed Coconut, in memory of her paternal great, great grandmother, who sold coconut cakes at a makeshift stall after the death of her husband and single-handedly raised her six young children, and gave Eugene an opportunity to have an education.