WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.530 --> 00:00:07.550 align:center line:-1Interviewer: Hello, Auntie. Thank you for participating in our CR/10 interview project today. 2 00:00:07.550 --> 00:00:09.950 align:center line:-1 Thank you for coming to interview me. 3 00:00:09.950 --> 00:00:14.000 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Auntie, first, could you please tell me what year you were born in? 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.420 align:center line:-1 I [was born in] 1918. 5 00:00:16.420 --> 00:00:25.160 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Thank you. During the 10 years of the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976, where were you? 6 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.020 align:center line:-1 I was in Tianjin. 7 00:00:27.020 --> 00:00:37.270 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Then, could you use a few minutes to share your Cultural Revolution experiences, impressions, feelings, etc.? 8 00:00:37.270 --> 00:00:46.250 align:center line:-1 During the Cultural Revolution -- 16 Middle [School] -- on the street next to us was a middle school, No. 16 Middle School. 9 00:00:46.250 --> 00:00:47.990 align:center line:-1 Interviewee's daughter, off camera: 61 Middle School... 10 00:00:47.990 --> 00:00:52.740 align:center line:-1 No. 16 Middle School students came to search my house and confiscate possessions. 11 00:00:52.740 --> 00:01:01.080 align:center line:-1 They took my things away. There were some things that they burned out in the courtyard. 12 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:02.930 align:center line:-1 It was such a shame. 13 00:01:02.930 --> 00:01:10.290 align:center line:-1 Among [those who participated] was a really good student, who saw my father's writings [among the things being burned]. 14 00:01:10.290 --> 00:01:13.330 align:center line:-1 He kept them and secretly gave them back to me. 15 00:01:13.330 --> 00:01:15.690 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: That's wonderful. There were still good people. 16 00:01:15.690 --> 00:01:22.120 align:center line:-1 Right. Anyway, [after] everything was taken away, I was made to go to the basement. 17 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:26.560 align:center line:-1 I lived there continuously for 10 years. 18 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.480 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: In your own basement? 19 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.170 align:center line:-1 Right -- our own house's basement. 20 00:01:32.170 --> 00:01:39.000 align:center line:-1 My previous house had been quite large, but later on we moved to smaller house. 21 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:44.050 align:center line:-1 However, this smaller house still had two floors, a basement, etc. 22 00:01:44.050 --> 00:01:57.460 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Do you have a deep impression of any incident during the Cultural Revolution that you could talk about with us? 23 00:01:57.460 --> 00:02:00.250 align:center line:-1 My house was searched to confiscate possessions during the Cultural Revolution. 24 00:02:00.250 --> 00:02:05.600 align:center line:-1 All of my books were burned, all of my foreign language books were burned. 25 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:12.690 align:center line:-1 I feel it's hard to talk about. 26 00:02:12.690 --> 00:02:16.470 align:center line:-1 Interviewee's daughter, off camera: What had you been using those foreign language books for? 27 00:02:16.470 --> 00:02:21.190 align:center line:-1 Like Tolstoy's [books] and others...so many... 28 00:02:21.190 --> 00:02:24.000 align:center line:-1 Interviewee's daughter: And a lot were reference books, right? 29 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.300 align:center line:-1 Huh? What? 30 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:30.820 align:center line:-1 Interviewee's daughter, off camera: You did translation; you had a lot of reference books, right? 31 00:02:30.820 --> 00:02:35.600 align:center line:-1 They weren't all reference books; there were foreign language novels and others. 32 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:45.390 align:center line:-1 I studied foreign language literature, so all of my books were in English. They saw these English books. 33 00:02:45.390 --> 00:02:49.970 align:center line:-1 The Red Guards were upstairs, since my books were all upstairs, [on] the second floor. 34 00:02:49.970 --> 00:02:53.170 align:center line:-1 [They] threw the books down, one by one, and burned them in my courtyard for a whole day. 35 00:02:53.170 --> 00:03:00.330 align:center line:-1 They burned all of those books of mine. My home didn't have anything worth money. 36 00:03:00.330 --> 00:03:06.180 align:center line:-1 I feel that books were more precious. So, they burned them all. 37 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:18.410 align:center line:-1 In the end, a student from No. 16 Middle School gave two of my father's books back to me, [since] he thought they were [important to me]. So great. 38 00:03:18.410 --> 00:03:25.590 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: Thank you. You're up there in age, a century old, but you still participated in our project. 39 00:03:25.590 --> 00:03:33.433 align:center line:-1 Interviewer: We are really very lucky. Thank you for accepting our interview.
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