https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu Please create a visual timeline for important events in your family history project from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. In creating this timeline, attention should be paid to the intersections between macro-level events and the micro-level personal stories. en-us 2022-02-26 23:01:41 UTC 2025-10-05 16:38:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f550.png https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070352628 As a peasant family in the Shandong Province, we were also affected by the epidemic. Especially my husband, he became addicted to opium. We have to pay so much more in taxes due to the Silver drain. ]]> 2022-02-28 21:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070352628 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070357924 Many of the peasants in the area that I live in have joined this new uprising that aimed to drive the foreigners away from our land. As for my family, we chose to not involve in anything like that with the fear of getting killed. ]]> 2022-02-28 21:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070357924 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070364441 The current situation in my homeland is very strange to me. There has been more and more presence of those foreigners. They look very different to us, live differently and have a different God. Some of them are going through villages to get us to join them in worshipping their God, some of my neighbours have joined. We don't know what to do, we are just trying to survive.]]> 2022-02-28 21:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070364441 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070371771 Currently, rumors have been going on that the Qing has fallen and there has been a new ruler. I was introduced to a new word called "democracy" which means that people like me would have the chance to influence change in our homeland. However, I don't know what someone like me could contribute? The only thing I know is farming. They say now peasants like us are able to go to school, so I sent my two boys to school.]]> 2022-02-28 22:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070371771 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070379190 I am currently in Beijing, studying to be a teacher while my brother stays in Shandong to look after my parents. The talk among the students are not very positive towards the Nationalist party. I have heard that there is a party being formed, but I have not understood their goal yet. As curious as I was, I began to look around for information. Apparently, their goal is to improve the livelihood and the well-being of the people." This seems so vague to me. I also think this will not really go anywhere, so I just observe and follow their developments from afar. ]]> 2022-02-28 22:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070379190 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070383138 After three long years of observing and learning about this new party, I finally decided to join. Coming from a peasant origin, I realized that most of their goals and ideals also aligned with mine. However, three years later, the Chiang government decided to murder everyone that was a member of the party. Scared for my family's life, I took my wife and children and went back to my hometown so we won't get killed. ]]> 2022-02-28 22:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070383138 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070386727 A year later I received the news that the two parties are going to work together mainly to overthrow the warlords in the provinces. The government also decided that it will be safer for the capital to be moved to Nanjing. Seeing that it is safer now my family and I moved back to Beiping and I started my teaching career in Beijing No.4 high school. ]]> 2022-02-28 22:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070386727 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070392675 A civil war broke out between Guomindang and CCP. This time I decided to stay in Beiping to support my party. Not having any military knowledge, I knew that the only thing I could provide is my knowledge. So I used my position as a teacher to move students and organize student resistance organizations in support of the CCP. I also contributed my writings and decided to work for the Xinhua news agency where I was able to write about the CCP and our revolutionary ideas.]]> 2022-02-28 22:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070392675 https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070395776 To add injure to to insult, in the middle of the civil war, the Japanese have decided to invade China and take over Manchuria. They have restored the last Qing, Puyi, into power and Manchuria is now a puppet region for the Japanese. The hostility between the two parties have also grown with Chiang Kai Shek keeping his focus in eradicating the CCP rather than fighting Japan. Shanghai and Nanjing had been taken over and the government has become more and more weak. ]]> 2022-02-28 22:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jhuangfu1_1/bvanderhu/wish/2070395776