Adrift in Tianjin, 1976
Sha Qingqing and Jeremy Brown, “Adrift in Tianjin, 1976: A Diary of Natural Disaster, Everyday Urban Life, and Exile to the Countryside,” in Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson, Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism (Harvard University Press, 2015), 179–195.
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| Content: | Tongshan’s Diary (hereafter abbreviated as TD), July 28, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 31, 1976. Tongshan never specifies what crime his brother committed. |
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| Content: | TD, September 9, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 28, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 28, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 31, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 28, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 29, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 30, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 1, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 30, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 3, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 5, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 2, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 5, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 28, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 3, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 5, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 6, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 20, 1976. Similar language about looters in Tangshan in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake was recorded by Li Lu, who saw “seven almost naked men tied together with a steel wire going through the flesh of their shoulders.” The men had been accused of stealing wristwatches from corpses. Li Lu, Moving the Mountain: My Life in China from the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square (London: Macmillan, 1990), 53–54. |
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| Content: | TD, July 25, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, July 27, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 3, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 10, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 3, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 12, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 9, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 14, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 18, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 19, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 13, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 22, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 23, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, August 23, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, September 16, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 12, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 17, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, September 27, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, September 29, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, September 23, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 09, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, September 29, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 14, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 16, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 22, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 27, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 29, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, October 30, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 04, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 06, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 08, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 09, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 10, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 14, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 12, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 17, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 16, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 18, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, December 12, 1976. |
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| Content: | TD, November 25, 1976. |