Anonymous's Story #1- (submission)
may tenth, two thousand twenty one
I was born in the US though my parents immigrated to the US when they were quite young. They both left to flee the oppressive communist regime in China. I will tell you my mother's story. She was born into a wealthy banking family in Shanghai; her father worked for General Chiang Kai-Shek who was fighting on behalf of China against the Japanese at the time. His job was to help transport ammunition and war supplies into Shanghai whose ports had been cut off by the Japanese, so my mother and two of her three sisters grew up in India where her father oversaw the building of the Burma Road which brought much needed supplies into China through India. At the time, my mom's youngest sister remained in Shanghai being raised by Mom's grandmother because it was determined that she was too young to live in India. In 1949, when the Communists came into power in China, the family had to flee China because of their association with Chiang Kai-Shek, who was considered an enemy of the Communist party. While they were given safe passage to America, once again, they left the youngest daughter, Baby Jeannette, behind since she was only two at the time. They thought they would be reunited in a couple of years' time. Little did they know that it would be 30 years before they saw Jeannette again when she was finally able to leave China in 1980. She is now living happily in America with her husband and her daughter.
我的父母在美国很小的时候移民美国，因此我出生在美国。他们俩都逃离了中国的压迫共产主义政权。我会告诉你我母亲的故事。她出生在上海一个富裕的银行家庭。她的父亲为蒋介石将军工作，当时蒋介石代表中国与日本抗战。他的工作是帮助将弹药和战争物资运送到被日本人切断的上海，因此，我的母亲和她的三个姐妹中的两个在印度长大，父亲负责监管缅甸路的建设，这为缅甸带来了急需的物资通过印度进入中国。当时，妈妈的小妹妹仍留在上海，由妈妈的祖母抚养长大，因为我确定她太年轻了，无法住在印度。 1949年，共产党在中国上台执政，全家因与蒋介石结盟而不得不逃离中国，蒋介石被视为共产党的敌人。当他们被安全地送往美国时，又一次将最小的女儿宝贝珍妮特（Baby Jeannette）抛在了身后，因为当时她只有两岁。他们以为他们会在几年后团聚。他们几乎不知道，要再过30年才能再见到珍妮特（Jeannette），她终于在1980年离开中国。现在，她和丈夫和女儿在美国过着幸福的生活。