Video: The Story of My Father (1) 視頻：我的父親 第一集
My father's story is something that you cannot hear from anywhere else. It can offer you a real window, a rare window to look through the facade that the official propaganda wants to create for you to see.
Through my father's story, you will see a real China, a truer China, and what the real situation of the Chinese Society is under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.
And why should we care about learning the true situation of China? Why does China matter?
And here is what I think. With China's economy having become the second-largest one in the world, with China's continues expansion of its power throughout the world, and with its influence and infiltration operations in many, many countries, It is important not only for the lawmakers, policymakers, researchers, China experts to learn more about China but also important ordinary citizens to have a better understanding and how life could be for an ordinary Chinese citizen in a totally different society. For the very least, every one of us has bought something made in China, right?
And, in recent years, socialism seems to have become more and more attractive for many people, especially young people in the West. These people have never had the experiences of living in a socialist, or communalist society, but somehow are attracted by the vision of it.
So I hope that my father's story can offer some real-life experiences of living in a socialist society, learned with many people's lives and sufferings. So I hope that through my father's story, everyone can learn something that can benefit them.
Shall we treat China, or rather, the Chinese Communist Party, as a friend, a partner, a competitor? a rival? or an enemy? Here I won't say anything about this. But I hope that after you hear my father's story, you will reach your conclusion, a more informed conclusion.
Okay, that's all.
Now Let me start to share the story of my father. My father was born into an ordinary peasant family in Chaozhong Village. I'm pretty much sure you'll have never heard of this name, but that doesn't matter. Anyway, this Chaozhong village is in Sichuan province. And he was born in 1933, 16 years before the Communist Party took power in China. I heard that my grandmother had given birth to 12 children, but only 9 of them survived. And my father was the second eldest son in the family and had a lot of brothers and sisters, younger ones to look after. So from a very young age, he was very naturally expected to share the responsibilities of supporting the family. I actually didn't have a chance to visit my father's village when I was already in high school, that was the 1980s. So when I went back to the village of my father, several of my uncles were still living there. And they lived in very old houses that they inherited from our ancestors, and those houses were made of mud, mud walls with literally no furniture inside it, and no electricity. So in the night, people had to rely on the very dim kerosene lamps, to-maybe if they want to go somewhere-they hold a lamp in their hands to light the road for them. So for me, when I look, and that kind of condition, I thought, Oh, my God, this should be called absolute poverty. And so I didn't understand why my father's "Social Class Category", should be labeled as "Small Land Lessor". Literally this "Small Land Lessor" means my father's family had a very small area of land, but they hired others, or they leased their land or their land for others to farm. I'm not quite sure whether anybody has heard about the terms "Social Class Category". I'm not sure whether it's a correct translation of it. The Chinese is "成分", or "階級成分". This is a very special thing, I think, in China. Let me talk a little bit about it. In 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party took power in China, the first thing they did, is to give everybody in the society a "Social Class Category". You have to belong to some "social class", and everybody was treated differently, according to what kind of "Social Class Category" you belonged to. For example, in the countryside, they labeled different people to different "Social Class Category" according to basically to how much land they owed before the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP came to power. So from top to bottom, there were "landlords" who own a lot of lands, and then "rich peasants", who may owe less mad, but were still very rich, and then "middle-class peasants", and then "lower-middle-class peasants" and then "poor peasants". So according to how much land, and how rich or how poor you were, you were classified into a different category and treated very differently because of your social class category. Of course, that was before the CCP came into power. After the CCP came into power, they actually confiscated all the land from everybody. So they took away all the land from the private owners and, and the state, actually, in theory, the state or the government, or everybody together, collectively owned all the land in the country. So my father's "Social Class Category" is a very special one. It's not usually known by others. It's called "Small Land Lessor". It may be somewhere between the "rich peasants" and "middle-class peasants". And in the city, they also gave everyone a different social category, like capitalists, workers, proletariats. Also, according to your social status, whether you own a factory, you own a shop in the city, or how much money you have, or you only work for others. And, again, depending on what kind of social category you belonged to, you would be treated very differently after the CCP came into power, not only you, but also your children, and children's children. So anyway, I learned the term "Small Land Lessor" when I was six years old, when I enrolled in primary school. And again, there's something I have to introduce to everyone. That is called "personal archives". So back in China, when I went to school-I'm not quite sure about this situation now-anyway, in those days, a personal archive for everybody was set up as soon as you enrolled in primary school. So there's a form for you to fill in. Of course, your name, your father's and mother's name, and very importantly, which "Social Class Category" your father and your mother belonged to. And that's when and why I learned the term "Small Land Lessor", because a grade one student of primary school, I didn't understand how to fill in, or what my father's social category was. So I asked my mother. Of course, my mother told me, "your father's social status was, or social class category, was 'Small Land Lessor'". So when talking about my father's social class category, my mother said this, "It was very unfair. There were so many brothers and sisters in your father's family overall. They didn't own much land. If it were calculated based on the average land area per person, your father's family should have been categorized as "middle peasants" at most, only because they have hired people to help farming the land, they were categorized as a Small Land Lessor', which was unfairly high!" Why was it so terrible if you belong to the higher social class category? Because if you hire other people to work for you, you belong to the class that exploited the working class. And then, again, in a socialist country, it is a crime. So you are the exploiting kind of social class. So if you hire any people to work for you, whether you're in a city or in the countryside, that is a crime, according to a Marxism theory. So that's why my mother was very angry because my father was categorized as a "small land lessor". Although I didn't fully understand mother's explanation, I somehow already knew that it was a terrible thing if you were ranked "high" in the social category. At that time the grandfather of a girl in our class was a landlord and the entire class looked down upon that girl. I remember once I went to that girl's home to do something. And unintentionally, I suddenly saw an old man sitting in a corner quietly, and I still remember him wearing a black colored padded coat. And then suddenly I realized this must be her landlord grandfather. And immediately I felt struck with fear because in our education, a landlord is something as bad as a monster. So I really felt like I had just seen a monster. So I hurriedly made up an excuse and escaped from her home as fast as I could. Anyway, this is just to give you a little bit of sense of how "social class category" is affecting everybody in China, and also let me come back to talk a little bit about the personal archive I talked about a little bit earlier. So basically, as soon as the personal archive was set up to you, everything about you was recorded in that archive, including how all your scores in the school, your exam scores, and all the comments your teacher made about you, and all your family's situation and all that good and bad things about you. And whenever you go, if you were transferred to another school, or, you go to a middle school or the university, these personal archives always follow you. So the strange thing is, everybody has a personal archive with everything about this person recorded in the archive, but nobody is allowed to have a read of the archive himself. Only the party members, or the head or the leaders of your workplace or your school had the right to read it. So today we all heard about this "social credit" score the Communist Party is giving, is trying to establish, or is trying to give everybody. Actually, this is not a new idea, this personal archives, only at that time, we didn't have a computer, we didn't have so many cameras set up in a society, but everything about you was recorded on paper and with paper and ink and stored in the paper envelopes anyway. So the idea is the same. Only today, it became electronic personal archives. So, at that time, we already had a paper personal archive anyway. Fortunately enough, for my mother's side, the social class category was "Poor People in the City", which was part of the “proletariat”, and actually, my mother's foster father was was a capitalist who owned a shop in the county. Actually, my father came to know my mother when he worked in that shop as an apprentice. But later on, my mother's foster father became addicted to opium. So as a result, he spent all his wealth. So when this CCP took power in 1949 and gave everyone a social class category, he was therefore classified as "poor people in the city". Why it is so important to become part of the proletarian in China? Because according to a socialism category, the proletarian class is the class that the Party is relying on to rule the country. They are the best, they are the ones to rely upon to liberate the whole world. So anyway, that's the social class category and the personal archive, we already had as soon as the CCP took power. So everybody in the society belongs to some special social class, and everybody is tightly controlled through your personal archive, and through whichever social class category you belonged to. So that's all for today. I'll talk more about my father's story next time. See you. Bye.
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