Janice Trey was born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution. Her parents were engineers, and that was the offense: the Chinese Communist Party sent the educated to the countryside, to a camp two days from the city by bus with one vehicle, a military truck. In this segment of the Surviving Communism series she tells Jenny Beth Martin what childhood was there.
From the first grade she walked an hour and a half each way to school, past a cemetery, across the crop fields and over a hill, while her parents did forced farming and sewing. Her daily task was sugarcane on the hilltop and sacks of fertilizer heavier than she was. After school she walked the fields for hours picking up what the harvesters had dropped. If she could not fill a plastic bag with it, she was not allowed back in school the next day.
The camp had one television set. It was turned on twice, for the funerals of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and everyone had to stand in front of it wearing black. Television, to her, meant funerals. Then her father, an engineer who knew that Einstein believed in God, sent her at ten to a Christian school in Hong Kong, where her mother's father, who had owned a bank before the Party took it, was living in a warehouse as its security guard. She heard a hymn for the first time. In China every schoolchild had been made to sing that Mao was the rising sun.
Guest: Janice Trey, chairman of the board of The Epoch Times and NTD, former CEO of The Epoch Times, former executive at five Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution.
In this segment:
• Born in a labor camp; her parents were sent there for being engineers
• Two days by bus to the city, one military truck for the whole camp
• First grade: an hour and a half to school past the cemetery
• Sugarcane on the hill and fertilizer heavier than she was
• Fill the bag with dropped crops, or no school tomorrow
• One television, two funerals, and black cloth cut into strips
• Comparing the textbooks of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
• The grandfather who owned a bank and guarded a warehouse
• A Christian school in Hong Kong, and the first hymn
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00:00 — Born during the Cultural Revolution; parents sent to a labor camp for being educated
00:29 — Two days by bus to the city; one military truck for the whole camp
00:52 — A forced child laborer from the first grade
01:03 — An hour and a half to school past the cemetery
01:14 — Sugarcane on the hill and fertilizer heavier than she was
01:31 — Fill the bag with dropped crops, or no school tomorrow
01:49 — Where her parents were: forced farming and sewing
02:25 — One television for the whole camp, used twice
02:51 — Black cloth for the funerals; television meant funerals
03:23 — Comparing the textbooks of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
03:44 — The grandfather who owned a bank and ended up guarding a warehouse
04:25 — A Christian school in Hong Kong, and the first hymn
04:41 — The song every schoolchild in China had to sing
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