Lives.
亲历
One named person in one event, in their own words or a published account.
Lives
One named person in one event, in their own words or a published account.
oral history · Land reform killingsSheng ChongShe had never seen anyone executed. When the militia shot the village head, she drew her borrowed gun and shot him too.Read →letters · The Anti-Rightist CampaignLin ZhaoDeprived of paper and ink, she used hairpins and her own blood to write two hundred thousand words.▶ Listenoral history · The great famineBian ShaofengHer father was a doctor who had saved many lives. Dying of hunger, he kept asking her for a bun.Read →memoir · Red Guard mobilisation and Red AugustNien ChengThirty or forty high school students came into her house. One of them knocked over a pot of jasmine.Read →oral history · The Down to the Countryside MovementWu XiaopingShe was eighteen and alone in a mountain village. The village accountant tried to break down her door.Read →biography · The 1989 protests and the June Fourth crackdownDing ZilinShe locked the apartment door on June 3 to keep her seventeen-year-old son inside. He climbed out the window.Read →archive · COVID-19 and the Wuhan lockdownLi WenliangHe warned medical school classmates about seven SARS cases in Wuhan. Three days later police made him sign a confession.Read →