Religions > Atheism > 'My mother always wants to save money - I want to spend it'
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'My mother always wants to save money - I want to spend it' |
'My mother always wants to save money - I want to spend it'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1349279,00.html
Go Jin was born into a family of illiterate peasants. Her daughter,
however, became a state engineer. And her granddaughter? She lives in
a yuppie flat and works for a Japanese company. Emma Brockes meets
three women who tell the story of modern China
Friday November 12, 2004
The Guardian
Go Jin has lived long enough to observe, without rancour, that it is
funny the way things turn out. Who would have thought it? That she,
the daughter of peasant farmers sent fleeing by the Japanese army,
would have a granddaughter who worked for a Japanese firm? That,
without being able to read or write, she would push four of her seven
children through university? That a revolution would take place in
which she would be classified, by virtue of a few run-down rooms in a
back alley of Shanghai, as a landowner? She joggles with laughter at
that particular irony. "A landowner!"
Emma Brockes
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0408310002.6b8da0e8%40posting.google.com
G2 China
http://snipurl.com/aj61
Guardian China
http://news.google.com/news?q=Guardian%20China&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Guardian+China&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Guardian+China&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Guardian%20China&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
China
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410180150.390524b8%40posting.google.com
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://snipurl.com/a684
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