![]() But the trees had all been burned, you know, in the Great Leap Forward, in the ridiculous effort to make steel in villages. ![]() I used to go before breakfast to collect firewood. “I learned cooking for the first time, but I’m afraid I was no good,” she says. You could feel the starvation around you.”ĭuring the Cultural Revolution, after her father was denounced and tortured for criticising Mao and her mother sent to a detention camp, Chang was exiled to a village in the Himalayan foothills. Once on the way to school, I was eating a bun and a child rushed out from nowhere, and snatched the bun from my hand and ate it. “Most people in my generation experienced starvation. ![]() “That was a time of life and death,” she says. As a child, meals were a mark of privilege for her family – in the 1950s her father was a middle-ranking official in the communist hierarchy and on the compound in which they lived they were granted special rations. ![]()
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