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my father’s story
My father Wu Dizhou was born in 1907 and died in 1992 at the age of 85. My father was a native of Longyan, Fujian Province, China. Three generations of the Wu family went out 1000 miles to work for a living, and accumulated some land. Only from my father’s generation this family did children go to school.
My father was born at end of the Qing Dynasty. After the Xinhai Revolution at 1911, China no longer had an emperor and began the journey of democratic constitutionalism. This was the dream he pursued throughout his life. From elementary school, my father became involved in the student movement, peasant movement and labor movement.
His inspiration（enlightened one） was Deng Zihui, a senior in his hometown. Deng returned from studying in Japan and brought back Marxism-Leninism, which influenced many students. They hope to change the unequal, unjust, poor and backward society.
(Under the rule of the Communist Party, the small amount of land owned by the Wu family became their “original sin”. According to the theory of CCP, this is a “bad background” and was an “exploiting class”.)
My father joined the Communist Party of China(CCP) in January 1930 when he was a college student in Shanghai (At that time he didn’t know how cruel and ruthless the CCP’s class struggle is). He was later arrested by Kuomintang — the Chinese Nationalist Party for “subversion of the state.” (It was a turbulent era. In 1928, the Kuomintang, with the support of the Soviet Union, overthrew the Beijing government established after the Revolution of 1911).
After being released from prison, he joined the Anti-Japanese War. First, he wrote the book “The Sino-Japanese War from the Perspective of International Law”. It is hard to imagine that this was written by a young man who came from a mountain village who had not graduated from a college and had just been released from prison after spending seven years in jail. At that time, he made a living as a temporary proofreader.
He citing various international laws and regulations at that time, he introduced in detail the situation of the countries concerned after World War I. With a large amount of information and clear arguments, he proposed the concept of “protracted war.” The Russo-Ukrainian War…
