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

“How did your father abandon your mother?”

“You know the civil war between Gou Min Dan

and the Communist Party? Everybody knows the

result of it.”

“Yes, Gou Min Dan was defeated by the

Communist Party in 1949 and driven to Taiwan.”

“As a millionaire, my father fled to Taiwan with

his wife, disregarding what would happen to

mother’s life. He had abandoned her. He had

abandoned my younger sister and me as well. I was

only about two years old. My younger sister has just

come into the world.”

“Is your father in Taiwan now?”

“Yes.”

“Does your mother hate him?”

“Yes, she hates him very much. She hates all

men. She said to me that all men were wicked and

asked me never to trust them. She swore that she

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