5/31/2023 0 Comments The joy luck club bookWhile the members of the older generation who had grown up in China before Mao Zedong were at least able to bring a sustaining fund of memory with them into exile, the younger generation was denied even this slender means of connection to the ancestral homeland. Those millions of emigrants who were part of the great Chinese diaspora - beginning in the middle of the 19th century when indentured laborers went to California, and ending in the 1950's when millions of refugees fled Communism - were left almost completely cut off from their homeland. In 1949, when the Red Army marched into Beijing, America's ''special relationship'' with China abruptly ended, and so hostile did our two countries become toward each other that people on both sides of the widening divide seemed to lose the ability even to imagine reconciliation.Īpart from the international crises, and even wars, there was another consequence, which, although more subtle, was equally tragic.
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