Wild Swans
7. "Going through the Five Mountain Passes' My Mother’s Long March (1949-1950) Just before my parents left Jinzhou, my mother was granted provisional membership in the Party, thanks to the deputy mayor who oversaw the Women's Federation, who argued that she needed it because she was going to a new place. The decision meant she could become a full member in one year's time, if she was deemed to have proved herself worthy. My parents were to join a group of over a hundred people traveling to the southwest, most of them to Sichuan. The bulk of the group were men, Communist officials from the southwest. The few women were Manchurians who had married Sichuanese. For the journey they were organized into units and given green army uniforms. The civil war was still raging in their path. On 27 July 1949 my grandmother, Dr. Xia, and my mother's closest friends, most of whom were under suspicion from the Communists, came to the station to see them off. As they st...
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