A Survivor’s Story

Li Schoolland
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Chapter Chapter 64 in Libertarian Autobiographies, 2023, pp 377-381 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Li Zhao Schoolland was born in the People’s Republic of China after the Communist Party Revolution. Growing up during the Great Leap Forward, Mao Tse Tung’s movement to establish a planned collectivist economy, which led to unparalleled poverty and starvation throughout the country. Her family faced discrimination for being educated and “capitalist” and had their properties confiscated. Then during Cultural Revolution, a movement to establish intellectual conformity, her family came under attack by the militant Red Guard. Her father (a doctor) was imprisoned, her mother (a university professor) was publicly beaten and humiliated, and the family was exiled to the remote countryside for nine years. Later, Li managed to enter university when they were reopened, which enabled her to eventually move to the United States.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29608-6_64

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