WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:03.380 align:center line:-1Interviewer: Thank you for accepting our interview. 2 00:00:03.390 --> 00:00:07.820 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Could you tell us when you were born? 3 00:00:07.830 --> 00:00:12.630 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: You don't need to name a specific year; you can just tell us the decade of your birth. 4 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:15.710 align:center line:-1 I was born in the 1990s. 5 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:23.350 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Which area are you from in China? 6 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:26.380 align:center line:-1 My hometown is in Shandong [Province]. 7 00:00:26.390 --> 00:00:28.550 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Are you from an urban or a rural area? 8 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:30.870 align:center line:-1 I'm from a city, Jinan. 9 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:34.870 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Are you able to tell me the first time you heard about the Cultural Revolution? 10 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.720 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: About how old were you were you first got an impression of what it was about? 11 00:00:38.730 --> 00:00:41.110 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Through what channel did you learn about it? 12 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:49.970 align:center line:-1 I feel like rather early in life, I knew the word and had some impression about this historical incident. 13 00:00:49.980 --> 00:00:52.930 align:center line:-1 However, I'm not sure what specific age I was when I first heard of it. 14 00:00:52.940 --> 00:01:02.800 align:center line:-1 Besides textbooks, I learned more about this event through TV dramas. 15 00:01:02.810 --> 00:01:14.110 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Other than TV and literature, did you also hear about it from your family, friends, or other people? 16 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.770 align:center line:-1 I rarely heard my family spontaneously bring up this event, 17 00:01:16.780 --> 00:01:21.050 align:center line:-1 but I remember that when I understood what the Cultural Revolution was, 18 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:26.810 align:center line:-1 I asked my grandparents whether they also experienced it. 19 00:01:26.820 --> 00:01:30.800 align:center line:-1 My paternal grandparents rarely talk about this event, since the Cultural Revolution didn't affect them much. 20 00:01:30.810 --> 00:01:36.900 align:center line:-1 However, I heard from my maternal grandparents that they were affected by this event at that time, because they were university professors. 21 00:01:36.910 --> 00:01:42.930 align:center line:-1 However, they were not really persecuted, since they left the place they were living somewhat early, and went to Jinan. 22 00:01:42.940 --> 00:01:49.900 align:center line:-1 And then, because they had moved away, they happened to avoid a number of things that might have happened to them [had they stayed]. 23 00:01:49.910 --> 00:01:53.900 align:center line:-1 Maybe it's because of this that they rarely talk about that event. 24 00:01:53.910 --> 00:01:58.590 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: How about your grandparents on your father's side? They never bring it up? 25 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:07.890 align:center line:-1 They never received advanced education. My [paternal] grandfather was a soldier, and my [paternal] grandmother worked outside the home. 26 00:02:07.900 --> 00:02:13.650 align:center line:-1 They don't belong to the intellectual class, so basically, they were not affected by the Cultural Revolution. 27 00:02:13.660 --> 00:02:27.690 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Are you personally interested in the topic of the Cultural Revolution? Or, how would you describe your personal understanding of the Cultural Revolution? 28 00:02:27.700 --> 00:02:36.410 align:center line:-1 I am interested in knowing some of the current views on the Cultural Revolution. 29 00:02:36.420 --> 00:02:47.530 align:center line:-1 For example, when I was in middle school and high school, we learned what this event was like through textbooks, or through what the teacher had to say about it, and then that's how we thought about it. 30 00:02:47.540 --> 00:02:56.790 align:center line:-1 However, now I am more interested in hearing from scholars, filmmakers, and other groups. 31 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:05.320 align:center line:-1 I want to know the impact of the Cultural Revolution on groups other than intellectuals. 32 00:03:05.330 --> 00:03:23.380 align:center line:-1 However, in terms of my own study, I don't have a particular interest in that era or in contemporary history, so I don't feel a special motivation to research that incident. 33 00:03:23.390 --> 00:03:24.250 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Thank you.
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