
Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao’s China
Lives Less Ordinary
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The Great Leap Forward
What happened next was another incredibly difficult period. The effort by chairman mau to industrialize china backfired and created this famine that killed tens of millions of people. In our street, for example, there several mothers would full time be there preparing dinner. At night, i'll be given a small bowl of rice at the height of the famine. And soon after you ate it, you felt hungry again,. Then there'ld be a piece of fish that was cooked in black oil that stunk your throat. My mother sometimes should say, i feel sick. I can't eat. And you divide up my ton and go to bed early.
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