I was born in a persecuted family in mainland China.
My grandfather, Kang Peng, the President of Jiaotong Univ., (Founding president of Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), was persecuted to death in Great Cultural Revolution, in the campus he founded. My grandmother turned to be a vegetable person, lying in the bed for 20 years. Every time, I went to hospital to see her with my sister, watching her …