
BITA16 - Break in the Action: Lily Tang Williams - Growing Up under Chairman Mao
08/04/23 • -1 min
David Scott from UK Column recently interviewed Lilly Tang Williams, who grew up in Maoist China, survived Mao's Cultural Revolution and used her ingenuity to escape to the United States.
This episode was originally released June 29, 2023.
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Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 - UK Column stinger and intro 00:00:46 - Lily Tang Williams 00:02:25 - Life under Mao 00:04:21 - Food ration coupons 00:06:34 - School posters 00:10:01 - Young Pioneers 00:11:43 - Lessons learned 00:12:11 - Moving up 00:15:19 - Surviving the Cultural Revolution 00:18:22 - Chinese law school 00:19:23 - The pocket Constitution 00:21:09 - Pictures from America 00:21:49 - Planning her escape 00:25:04 - Giving up home 00:28:15 - Moving to America 00:31:03 - Graduate school 00:31:48 - Research assistant 00:33:17 - Life is good, but.... 00:37:58 - Hong Kong example 00:38:58 - Hong Kong 2013 00:40:01 - Foreign ideology 00:40:46 - Starting a business 00:44:42 - Guns Against Tyranny article 00:47:25 - Totalitarians 00:59:41 - Cultural Marxism = Maoism 01:00:59 - Lily's web siteThanks for sending some value back!
IMAGE CREDITS Food Ration Coupon - 河北省革命委員會—糧食局Revolution Committee of Hebei — Bureau of Food, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Marx Lenin Mao poster - https://chineseposters.net/posters/pc-1968-l-005, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Young Pioneers - User:Tsiaojian_lee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Stable diffusion - Tullius Detritus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Mao Zedong - 侯波, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1966 Mao Zedong - 吕相友, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Shangai Law School -
David Scott from UK Column recently interviewed Lilly Tang Williams, who grew up in Maoist China, survived Mao's Cultural Revolution and used her ingenuity to escape to the United States.
This episode was originally released June 29, 2023.
Chapters are back thanks to GarageBand 6.0.5, Podcast Chapters and Podcast Index.
Find other episodes and series under the Pages section on the right.
As a reminder, if you're on an Android device, AntennaPod is the podcast player that correctly displays chapters. If you're on an Apple device, you'll need to download the m4a file (see below) to have chapters work correctly.
If you got value from the show, please send some value back, via bitcoin or via lightning boosts - thank you!
Listen below or download it here.
Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 - UK Column stinger and intro 00:00:46 - Lily Tang Williams 00:02:25 - Life under Mao 00:04:21 - Food ration coupons 00:06:34 - School posters 00:10:01 - Young Pioneers 00:11:43 - Lessons learned 00:12:11 - Moving up 00:15:19 - Surviving the Cultural Revolution 00:18:22 - Chinese law school 00:19:23 - The pocket Constitution 00:21:09 - Pictures from America 00:21:49 - Planning her escape 00:25:04 - Giving up home 00:28:15 - Moving to America 00:31:03 - Graduate school 00:31:48 - Research assistant 00:33:17 - Life is good, but.... 00:37:58 - Hong Kong example 00:38:58 - Hong Kong 2013 00:40:01 - Foreign ideology 00:40:46 - Starting a business 00:44:42 - Guns Against Tyranny article 00:47:25 - Totalitarians 00:59:41 - Cultural Marxism = Maoism 01:00:59 - Lily's web siteThanks for sending some value back!
IMAGE CREDITS Food Ration Coupon - 河北省革命委員會—糧食局Revolution Committee of Hebei — Bureau of Food, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Marx Lenin Mao poster - https://chineseposters.net/posters/pc-1968-l-005, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Young Pioneers - User:Tsiaojian_lee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Stable diffusion - Tullius Detritus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Mao Zedong - 侯波, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1966 Mao Zedong - 吕相友, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Shangai Law School -
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