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By researching my passage, I was able to learn what Adeline was growing up through and how her world changed multiple times. I also realized how the author (still Adeline) worded her "history lesson" in a way where each topic somehow worked its way into the next topic!
definition- [dok-yahrd] a waterside area containing docks, workshops, warehouses, etc., for building, outfitting, and repairing ships, for storing naval supplies, etc. By using the text, I know now that the dockyard was unusually crowded just like the airports which was odd but Adeline didn't realize why at the time.
Definition- [feef-duh m] noun 1. the estate or domain of a feudal lord. 2. Informal. anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group.
"Following Sun’s revolution, local warlords divided the country into fiefdoms" Using the text, I know that the country was divided into different estates which were run by a feudal lord or on dominant group/person.
Then disaster struck. Everything went downhill.
"I didn’t know it then, but the China I had always known was changing before
my very eyes. My grandparents Ye Ye and Nai Nai were both born during the
Qing dynasty, which ruled China for 374 years until Sun Yatsen toppled it in
1911. Following Sun’s revolution, local warlords divided the country into fiefdoms
and waged war with one another until the emergence of the Nationalist
Party under Chiang Kai-shek. When Japan invaded in 1937, most of China
was controlled by Chiang. However, the Communists under Mao Zedong were
gaining momentum. Between 1937 and 1945, the Nationalists and Communists
formed a united front to fight the Japanese. After Japan’s surrender in
1945, the civil war resumed between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek for
the control of China. By September 1948, when Father and
Niang took me north to Tianjin from Shanghai to separate me from my aunt,
the Communists were already in control of Manchuria and were advancing rapidly
southward toward Beijing and Tianjin. Province after province was being
lost to the victorious People’s Liberation Army. Most people were fleeing in the
opposite direction. Railroad stations, airports and dockyards were jammed
with passengers wishing to escape to Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Being completely ignorant of the political situation, I merely thought it
rather strange that the plane was so empty when the airport was so full." (123-125)