Pan Yunqin | 潘云琴, 2011 August 15

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Pan Yunqin (b.1942) is a resident of Jiangwan Village. She attributed the hunger to the three years of Great Famine and China's debts to the USSR. Villagers used food coupons to receive limited food and ate famine foods. When Pan was in confinement after childbirth, she saved food for the hungry children in the neighborhood. But she was suspected to have more food than others, which would lead to denunciation. Pan went to work at Eating Halls soon afterwards, so that she could get more food and feed her child. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

潘云琴（1942年生）是黑龙江省佳木斯依兰县江湾镇江湾村村民。老人说当年挨饿是由于三年自然灾害和还前苏联的债，村民靠粮票领有限的食物，用苞米秧子和山野菜替代食物。潘老人曾经在自己坐月子的时候，省下一些粮食给邻居家饥饿的小孩子吃，不想却被举报有多余食物，险遭批斗。老人生下孩子不久就去食堂工作，为的是多那些东西吃，可以喂孩子吃奶。

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