During the midst of the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party experimented with land reform strategies in Northeastern China. A student’s great-grandfather, a landowner, fled Heilongjiang with his son, leaving his wife and daughter behind. As a result, the two women suffered from brutal beatings during struggle sessions at the hands of local peasants, and while they survived, they were permanently separated as a family.

1946

Heilongjiang Land Reform

German Schools Abroad Society