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Lynn McGuire wrote:One of my Dad's mainland Chinese grad students from OU lived with us for a couple of years from 1973 to 1974 and worked for my Dad from 1973 to 1995. He came over to the USA in 1966 or 1967 and got a PhD in Chemical Engineering from OU in 1973. I heard enough stories from him about growing on a farm in China, living in a cave, starving all the time. If our family did not eat everything at supper then he would finish everything off. It took my mother several months break him of that habit. But he never got fat. He never mentioned anything about the Cultural Revolution but I suspect it was the reason why he left China.On 8/16/2024 1:26 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:I've known several people whose lives were damaged by that event. And these were the lucky ones, who made it to the west.Awhile back, The Three Body Problem was mentioned. In that thread, there was no mention of the current Netflix version. Was this mentioned somewhere else and I just missed it? Google groups is of no help any more.>
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I have just started the series and I am intrigued, so far. Just two episodes. My wife is rather "meh" about it, but she said the same thing about Star Trek 1 which in reality she HATED so I may be watching it after she goes to bed.
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Dave Scruggs
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I did not like the Netflix version, have yet to read the book. Too much time spent on the China Cultural Revolution and their violence against the educated. Felt like a Children of the Corn mini series. I gave up after two episodes.>One scientist I knew never got over it, especially the abuse suffered by her mother. One might have expected her father, an educated man who had lived in the West and still had children living there to be as big a target. But he was left alone, she said, because he was a renowned gerontologist and the Party leadership was getting older.
Another distinguished scientist told me he reached the last year of secondary education only to realize that he'd learned absolutely nothing owing to the constant meetings and demonstrations. Ignoring his teachers, he packed four years of school into one. Judging by his subsequent career, he kept up that level of effort for the next few decades.
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