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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

“He was not my birth father. He was my

stepfather. But he was very good me. He was a

professor of mathematics. He had been tutoring me

since I started school. That’s how I skipped two

grades and later got admission into a famous

university and got a Master’s degree. I owe all of this

to him. But he died two years ago. I have been

cherishing the memory of him.”

“So it was him who financed your education,

right?”

“Yes, it was.”

“Does your mother have a job?”

“No, she does not. She is only a house wife. But

she is not an ordinary woman. She used to be a good

singer. In her twenties, before the Liberation (before

the Communist Party of China set up its regime in

1949), she had gained considerable fame amongst

her contemporaries. She was not only a good singer

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