Abstract

This is a short article on the of Ku Hua-jung, an old lady from Hsi-wu Village in Li-ch'eng hsien, Shansi Province. Home and history are the two indispensable elements of a As for Auntie Ku, who is fifty-one years old, her experience over the past fifty-one years can of course be written into a but hardly into a family history, because half her life, she had no home of her own. Although she lived in four other homes at different times, she had no home she could really consider her own. How anyone could be called upon to write a for her is a difficult problem. However, the stories she had of how she fled for her life from her parental home, how she suffered scoldings and beatings in the homes of others; and how she suffered extreme hardships in those nonfamily families can be regarded as her family history.

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