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Little White Duck: A Childhood in China is a 2012 children's book written by Na Liu and illustrated by her husband, Andrés Vera Martínez; Graphic Universe is its publisher. It discusses Na Liu's childhood in China during the 1970s and 1980s. Na Liu, who grew up in Wuhan.

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The year is 1973 in Wuhan China. Life in China is very normal at this time.

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September 9, 1976
During this time Qin’s parents and hundreds of other Chinese citizens morning Doug death of their country‘s leader chairman Mao. They may not know it yet but Qin’s Lives and the lives of hundreds of other Chinese citizens will be different.

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Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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This image is an example of propaganda against Mao.On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the PRC, a single-party state controlled by the CPC. In the following years he solidified his control through campaigns against landlords, suppression of "counter-revolutionaries", "Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns" and through a psychological victory in the Korean War, which altogether caused the deaths of several-million Chinese. From 1953–1958, Mao played an important role in enforcing planned economy in China, constructing the first Constitution of the PRC, launching the industrialisation program, and initiating the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project. On the other hand, in 1955-1957, Mao launched the Sufan movement and the Anti-Rightist Campaign, with at least 550,000 people persecuted in the latter, most of whom were intellectuals and dissidents. In 1958, he launched the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial, which led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of 20–46 million people between 1958 and 1962. In 1963, Mao launched the Socialist Education Movement, and in 1966 he initiated the Cultural Revolution, a program to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements in Chinese society which lasted 10 years and was marked by violent class struggle, widespread destruction of cultural artifacts, and an unprecedented elevation of Mao's cult of personality

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The Four Pests Campaign was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of sparrows is also known as Smash Sparrows or Eliminate Sparrows Campaign which resulted in severe ecological imbalance, being one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine. In 1960, Mao Zedong ended the campaign against sparrows and redirected the fourth focus to bed bugs

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This video shows us the result of this for pests movement. We get a clear idea of what this movement sparked in people and their actions. This movement started in 1957. Currently in the graphic novel it it is somewhere in the 1970s. The main character has been assigned a school project to collect rats, which was inspired by the sparrow campaign.

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March 5th: The same way in American traditions we honor heroes, the Chinese do the same. Lei feng as a selfless soldier. Among other things he always put others before himself. So during this national holiday the Chinese do things to give back to the community for example cleanup parks. In the graphic novel the girls do favors for other people and try to be patient among other things.

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Lei Feng is an icon who continues to resonate in mainland China. March 5th has become the official "Learn from Lei Feng Day". This day involves various community and school events where people go to clean up parks, schools, and other community locations. In the novel Kin and her friend practice the act of being selfless and putting other people before them self. In the graphic novel they do kind acts indication of this day.

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Lei Feng was a soldier in the People's Liberation Army and is a communist legend in China. After his death, Lei was characterized as a selfless and modest person devoted to the Communist Party and the people of China. In 1963, he became the subject of a nationwide posthumous propaganda campaign, "Follow the examples of Comrade Lei Feng”. Lei was portrayed as a model citizen, and the masses were encouraged to emulate his selflessness, modesty, and a number of his other good qualities.

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Agustina 1962: Here is a patriotic Chinese song. The song is dedicated to follow Lei feng’s good example. After he died on August 15, 1962 a few months later March 5 became the official learn from the Lei feng day.

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Learn From Lei Feng's Good Example - Patriotic Chinese Song (English Lyrics)

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According to the ancient Chinese legend, in ancient time, there was a ferocious monster named “Nian” with sharp teeth and horns. Secluding itself in the dark sea for a long time, the beast would go onshore by the end of the lunar year and hunt people and livestock. Therefore, every time before the New Year’s Eve, all the villagers would escape to remote mountains to avoid Nian's attack.

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1900-2017This video explains why the Chinese light loud fireworks. It is used because the noise supposedly scares away the New Year’s monster. The video explains the 1975 story of the monster.

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The reason why we so commonly see you read and this loud fireworks during a Chinese new year celebration is to scare away this monster. It is truly amazing how a legend from 1971 has carried and continued on all the way to our present. Wow!

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2019: lion dance. Another thing that supposedly scares the monster is the lion dance. Once again they do it in red because that’s with the monster feeders. The lions dance also brings good luck and keep the community safe for another year. The stand is something that took place in 2019. But the tradition lives on from the 1900’s.

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Chinese New Year 2019 Lion Dance, Hong Kong

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In the novel the Chinese community is celebrating the new year. The celebrations in this picture of the book, are very similar to the celebrations that we see when the Chinese celebrate the new year. This includes a whole lot of the color red, fireworks, Lion dance sometimes, and much more.

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For the celebration of the new year among other things the number one priority is cleaning. A clean house is considered good luck. While doing the action of cleaning the house it is considered the decisions and bad luck are being “swept away”. However the cleaning is all done before New Year’s.

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On the days immediately before the New Year celebration, Chinese families give their homes a thorough cleaning. There is a Cantonese saying "Wash away the dirt on nin ya baat", but the practice is not restricted to nin ya baat (the 28th day of month 12). It is believed the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and makes their homes ready for good luck. Brooms and dust pans are put away on the first day so that the newly arrived good luck cannot be swept away. Some people give their homes, doors and window-frames a new coat of red paint; decorators and paper-hangers do a year-end rush of business prior to Chinese New Year

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After meeting her cousins, she realizes that they are very differently brought up than she was. After they chastise her and indirectly make fun of her she feels very bad. But she resorts to the principles of Confucius a Chinese philosopher.

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551-497 BC: The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity. His philosophies change China. People dedicated themselves to following his morals and values. This made a lot of people better and sharper in the mind. When Qin Has a tough experience with her cousins, instead of resorting to anger she resorted to Confucianism. In the novel instead of getting angry she decides to become impatient like the Chinese philosopher did so.

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1970: So what was the cultural revolution itself? The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China , its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong. When Qin was told that her grandpa died she did not know what her mother meant. Mao The leader of the Chinese at the time had died. After that everything changed, I think the novel those are all the changes he experienced.

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1970: What was the outcome of the cultural revolution? The Cultural Revolution damaged China's economy while tens of millions of people were persecuted, with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million. Starting from the Red August of Beijing, massacres took place across the country, such as the Guangxi Massacre ,the Inner Mongolia incident, the Yunnan Massacres and the Hunan Massacres. The "1975 Banqiao Dam failure", one of the greatest technological catastrophes of the world, also took place during the Cultural Revolution. On the other hand, senior officials, most notably Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai and He Long, were purged or exiled. Millions were accused of being members of the Five Black Categories and were persecuted, suffering public humiliation, imprisonment, torture, hard labor, seizure of property, and sometimes execution or harassment into suicide

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Communists entering Beijing in 1949.

The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai, originally existed as a study group working within the confines of the First United Front with the Nationalist Party. Chinese Communists joined with the Nationalist Army in the Northern Expedition of 1926–27 to rid the nation of the warlords that prevented the formation of a strong central government. This collaboration lasted until the “White Terror” of 1927, when the Nationalists turned on the Communists, killing them or purging them from the party.

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1958-1962: The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Mao decreed increased efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside. Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting "surpluses" that in fact did not exist and leaving farmers to starve. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action. The Great Leap resulted in tens of millions of deaths, with estimates ranging between 18 million and 45 million deaths. About the same number of births were lost or postponed, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest in human history. In the graphic novel when Qin parents spoke to her and her sister about the importance of finishing every meal, do you referring to this time when there was family and people would eat off the ground to satisfy the hunger.

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Out of 10 stars I would give this book a solid seven stars. The book was very interesting. It kept me very engaged and curious. There was a lot of good things about the book, one thing I found particularly interesting is the traditions. The New Year’s tradition was quite appealing to me. Lei Feng Day was also something that interested me. A day where people try to be their best selves is something that I would like to see here in my home right now. Another thing that is interesting Is how much respect the Chinese have for themselves, others, and not only what they have. And that I am referring to how they always finish all the food because their past ancestors and some of the other older generations didn’t have food to eat. And they always respect each other no matter what. For the other missing two stars but I would like to say about that is, the book doesn’t cover the certain cultural change more specifically. It doesn’t tell us why life suddenly changed other than the death of the leader Maois how much respect the Chinese have for themselves, others, and not only what they have. And that I am referring to how they always finish all their food because their past ancestors and some of the other older generations didn’t have food to eat. And they always respect each other no matter what. Four of the other missing two stars but I would like to say about that is, the book doesn’t cover that certain cultural change more specifically. It doesn’t tell us why life suddenly changed other than the death of the leader Mao. Another thing I believe that could’ve been better is if the book had been in more order and more specific to what happen in Kin’s life.  But overall I enjoyed researching the cultural revolution in China.

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“ We grew up in China was slowly opening up to the world both economically and culturally. This made for a much different childhood. We became a transitional generation— A generation caught in between one way of life and another, between the old and new show”.
This quote is from the author and the main character of the book Nai Liu (Qin). In some ways her situation can be compared to our generation and technology. How so? When one generation is used to old methods of anything from Hardwork to labor to strengthen numbers is now replace by technology. Whether it be a machine, a robot, and all sorts of other things. Obviously there is a huge difference between these two. But for the sake of a comparison we can think of the 1970s China cultural revolution as the technological revolution that we are experiencing now.