There were a lot of family stories that had people fleeing China because of the communist government or because of the ruler, Mao ZeDong. This seemed somewhat consistent with the stories that my families had told me. For example, my father would sometimes tell me stories about how good China was back then and that the only reason that he had moved was because of the little job opportunities that they had they had in China. However, my mother usually talked about how bad some of the living conditions there were in China and how glad she was they they immigrated.
So, my uncle’s father was a mayor in Zhongshan, a big city in Grangzhou. During the Cultural Revolution in China during 1966 to 1976, under Mao’s leading, the upper-officers tried to find out the corrupt in every city with every kind of torture. So, they not spared to get information from different city and people, to find out the Corrupts. As I know, many loyalty workers also die during that period, because the governors did not give so much patients or trustings on them. Unfortunately, my uncle’s dad got attention from those people, and getting into a big trouble—those people wanted information of how people corrupted each one no matter you did it or not—of course everyone would say they never did so, which the officers would use torture on the mayors, until you make something up and they have enough evidences to “kick” you into jail. This is what really happened to my uncle’s family, when he was a teenager. It was impossible for his father to escape anyway, at the end; his father asked one of his best friends brought them away as far as he can because he feared that his family would get involved into it. Thus, my uncle follower his two brothers, from China, then shipping to Macau, to Hongkong, and lastly took airplane to United States.
This seemed to be a consistent reason of why people had moved out of China and immigrated to the United States or to other areas, Mao ZeDong was a iron fisted ruler that not a lot of people liked. he was disliked by a lot of people, and the people that he had wronged usually left the country. This was from Peter’s blog, and it talked about how even in present times, the influence of Mao ZeDong is still far reaching.
In 1951, about six years after World War II, my great grandfather passed away but not because of natural causes. After the world war, Communism was on the rise in China and Mao Zedong became the first chairman of the communist party of China. During his rule, one of his terrible actions is that he ordered the imperial army to arrest all of the wealthy people, in which one of them was my great grandfather, and placed them in jail to rot. The jails had horrible living conditions and eventually, my great grandfather died of starvation because the food there was unbearable. The family wealth was never returned and the family had basically dropped from the elite class to the poor class within a few years.
This was a quote from David’s blog that talked about how Mao ZeDong and communism basically screwed his family over and over. It seems consistent with Peter’s blog post because it talks about how Mao ZeDong was a ruler that somewhat brutalized his people and deprived them of the things that they had achieved in their lives.
At the time, there were people in China who believed that he was a great leader, while there were also people who despised him and wanted to get rid of him. Personally, my mom stated how she thought Mao was a good and just ruler because he brought positive change and was helping China move forward technologically, militaristically, and in other ways. My mom stated how she does not understand why almost all Americans view Mao Zedong as an evil dictator. She believes that the people used propaganda to show all of Mao Zedong’s negative aspects and hid his numerous accomplishments as leader.
This was a quote that I found on Andy’s blog. This interested me because his mom’s views were similar to my dad’s views on the issue of Mao ZeDong. Andy basically talked about his mom and how his mom thought that Mao ZaDong was a pretty good ruler/ governor, and that the only reason that people think that he is such a bad person is because people use propaganda to make his bad deeds outshine his good deeds.
The thing that connects all of these family stories together is that they all talk about relatives that fled China and Mao ZeDong, no matter if he was a good ruler or not.
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