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Issues: vol. 13-vol. 17. Missing vol. 14-15.

Language(s): All materials in Yiddish.

Language(s): All materials in Yiddish.

Language(s): All materials in Yiddish.

颐和园荇桥

Xing Minglan (b.1935) is a resident of Shili village, Zoucheng City, Shandong Province. Xing says that the commnual canteen always cook rotten yam, rotten grain together, of which people could only get a small share, and they had to work in the field.

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Missing Persons

Xiong's thesis project is Mutual Players and consists of one digital film.

Xiong Jiahong (b. 1937) is a resident of Jiaochangba Village, Kuanzhuang, Fuming County, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Xiong was born in a poor peasant family and was a production team leader for a few years. During the Great Leap Forward, Xiong worked every day with his fellow villagers but they didn't have enough to eat. He complained about to some cadres but was accused of being 'reactionary' by cadres. Xiong's wife Yang Shizhen came from a landlord family in a nearby village. Xiong was too poor to afford betrothal gifts, so he married this landlord's daughter who didn't ask for any betrothal gifts. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

Xiong Xuezhen (b. 1923) is a resident of Baiyangshan Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Xiong recalls how the women villagers were forced to make charcoal in the mountains and how the bones of tomb owners without progenies were digged out to make farming fertilizers after the people's commune canteen was established. Xiong also recounts how her family survived the famine because she and her husband were working for the canteen.

Xiong Yun (b. 1940) is a resident of Xiaobaipo Village, Kuanzhuang, Fuming County, Kunming, Yunnan Province. During the period of communal canteens, Xiong was a teenager. Many people were slowly starved to death. Thus, a 'nutrition canteen' was set up to amass sick people and serve a little bit more rice. Later when individual families could keep pigs, people had to hand in their pork and offer a pig tail as evidence. Xiong was a teacher in a non-public school in the village and was paid poorly. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

Language(s): All materials in Yiddish.

Language(s): All materials in Yiddish.

Transliteration: Elu ṿa-elu: XIV

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