A Window to the West
3. How my father took the rare chance to escape Communist China and migrate to Hong Kong when I was two, leaving his family behind and possibly causing my abandonment wound.
1973. You were a chubby little ball with a downturned smile and a look of defiance.
What were you defiant about?
Was it the oppressive environment you were born into?
The patriarchal tradition that clashed with who you wanted to become?
The restrictions Mao’s government placed on what people could say and think?
The …
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