The Rooftop Playground Without A Staircase

A family story of China’s failed experiment

Lisa Lau

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My mother remembers exactly the moment when her childhood ended.

Life had already fallen apart in China when my mother was born in 1948. The Japanese invasion had ravaged the country for eight years in the midst of the Chinese Civil War that ended with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) taking…

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Lisa Lau

Insomniac, knowledge thrill-seeker, leisure and cathartic writer