My parents

When I recalled the story of my parents, I was surprised to find that they had had so much to do with contemporary communist China. My mother became a “barefoot doctor” in the early 1970s, and ran a small clinic in the hamlet where she was living at. After the barefoot doctor system, which had established quite a good network for peasants to seek health care, was abolished in 1981, she started working in the local township hospital. She was also a pious Christian, and instructed me in Holy Bible at a young age. My father had no job from the beginning, and took the civil service examination in late 1980s, therefore he went to work in the “planed birth” (or birth control) board. During the Cultural Revolution, he wrote vast stores of quotations from Chairman Mao on numerous walls, and gradually became a calligrapher.