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My mother's earnings, as with all the peasants', depended on the weather and luck.†
Chpt 1.1 *

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
The government would get the first and biggest portion, at the government-set price, and the rest was divided among the peasants according to the number of members in each family and how many points the family earned during the year.†
Chpt 1.1
Then, at the end of each month, all the peasants would gather and decide how many points each person was entitled to.†
Chpt 1.1
It took the people in the village more than two years to repay that loan, and still the peasants had to eat anything that moved, and some things that didn't.†
Chpt 1.1
We each carried a shovel and a bamboo basket made by our dia, to dig for any yams that might have been overlooked by the peasants during harvesting.†
Chpt 1.1
These were especially aimed at teaching the uneducated peasants Mao's communist ideas.†
Chpt 1.2
They were supposed to live among the peasants, live like peasants.†
Chpt 1.2
They were supposed to live among the peasants, live like peasants.†
Chpt 1.2
He criticized the medical profession for avoiding the communes and refusing to share the experience of the peasants' lives.†
Chpt 1.2
The city people could afford to pay more than the country peasants for his carpentry work.†
Chpt 1.3
School would teach me how to read and write, but deep down, like my dia and my brothers, I wondered what use an education would be to a peasant boy who was destined to work in the fields.†
Chpt 1.6
I didn't need an education to be a good peasant.†
Chpt 1.6
Whoever invented them must have been a peasant, I thought.†
Chpt 1.6
All three classes had to be represented—peasants, workers and soldiers.†
Chpt 1.7

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Become someone other than a peasant boy.†
Chpt 1.7
There are peasants selling smoked chicken, steamed bread, roasted peanuts, sunflower seeds and sweets.†
Chpt 1.7

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Why are you, peasant boy, here in this magnificent city?†
Chpt 2.8
The numbers, our political heads explained, referred to 7 May 1970, when Madame Mao delivered a famous speech to the arts and education communities, using Chairman Mao's philosophies to encourage all intellectuals to engage, both physically and mentally, with the three classes: peasants, workers and soldiers.†
Chpt 2.8

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
They were golden words to the Ministry of Culture, so they proposed that Madame Mao should be the artistic director of this new university, and that it should be located in the heart of the communes, where future artists could learn and work among the peasants every day.†
Chpt 2.8
You are the lucky and proud children of the workers, peasants and soldiers of China!†
Chpt 2.8
I was so afraid they would laugh at me, this uneducated peasant boy.†
Chpt 2.8
He means the poor peasants and workers who cannot get enough to eat or clothes to wear.†
Chpt 2.9

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
I was immediately drawn to it and as a curious peasant boy I soon found myself digging my fingers down into the still half-frozen soil to see if there was any thing planted, but the soil seemed completely barren.†
Chpt 2.9
They only chose me because of my long fingers—and my parents are peasants.†
Chpt 2.9

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
And my parents are peasants too.†
Chpt 2.9
We had to live and work among the peasants or workers or soldiers and at the same time keep up our dance training.†
Chpt 2.10
Our first three-week summer holiday was spent in one of these learning sessions, with the peasants in a nearby commune.†
Chpt 2.10
I truly believed Chairman Mao was right: if these kids didn't come to the commune and work with the peasants, they would have no idea where their food came from.†
Chpt 2.10
We continued to practice our ballet, acrobatics and Beijing Opera Movement every day while we were living with the peasants.†
Chpt 2.10
We slept and ate at different peasants' homes during our stay, but by the third day so many students suffered stomach cramps and diarrhea that the school officials had to quickly call in our own academy chef to cook for us.†
Chpt 2.10
Aren't the peasants our role models?†
Chpt 2.10
We are not guarding against the peasants' stealing," he said.†
Chpt 2.10
It was too much for an eleven-year-old peasant boy.†
Chpt 2.10
A peasant's job is the lowest job one can have.†
Chpt 2.11
"Did you really see Madame Mao?" one peasant man asked me.†
Chpt 2.11
We were told it had similar terrain to Dajai, a model area where peasants cultivated fruit trees and crops in rocky mountainous conditions.†
Chpt 2.13

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Learning from the peasants was reaching fever pitch at around this time.†
Chpt 2.13
I wanted to make the process faster so we could contribute more to the peasants.†
Chpt 2.13
How could a fourteen-year-old peasant boy think about being the best in the world?†
Chpt 2.14
I was among five boys chosen to play the peasant boy, the "little fat boy."†
Chpt 2.14
We endlessly criticized the pathetic peasant girl, Giselle, who did nothing with her life other than desire the jewelry and lifestyle of the wealthy.†
Chpt 2.14
How stupid and disgusting she was to turn her back on the peasant who truly loved her.†
Chpt 2.14
He has glorified the rich and portrayed the peasants as whores.†
Chpt 2.14

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
My family's living standard had gradually improved under Deng's leadership, and some of the seasonal planning decisions had been handed back to the peasants.†
Chpt 2.14
I looked like a peasant boy pretending to be a prince.†
Chpt 2.16
But how could a Chinese peasant boy understand a Western prince's arrogance, his passion and his love?†
Chpt 2.16
But I couldn't get rid of the peasant prince image, and I was not satisfied.†
Chpt 2.16
I knew that only experience and maturity would determine whether I could be that handsome prince and not just a poor peasant boy acting out a role.†
Chpt 2.16
Peasants never used the official calendar for anything.†
Chpt 2.17

peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
The number was too enormous for a Chinese peasant boy to comprehend.†
Chpt 2.18

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used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
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