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Weekly Contest #368
# When Communism Meets Daoism Mr. Zhang lived next door to my grandmother. Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, he had run a small business during the Republic of China era. Afterwards, he worked as a clerk in a state-owned traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy. But his history as a small business owner was labelled a criminal past, and his workplace slapped him with the title of "bad element." Whenever a new political campaign swept through, Mr. Zhang was the first to be publicly denounced. He was always the first. When...
# The Magic of a Bowl of Meat It was in the early 1970s, during the Cultural Revolution. Meat was very rare at that time; everyone had only half a kilogram of meat ration each month. Even if you had the ration ticket, there was no guarantee that there was meat to buy with it. My father worked as a labourer in a steel factory. At lunchtime one day, the factory's canteen offered a bowl of 'twice-cooked pork' (huiguorou) to each worker — extra meat without need for a ration ticket. My father didn't eat it. He kept it in a round metal bowl. In t...
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