Their generation’s bad fortune even passed on to the next generation: By 1978, their sons and daughters had long become farm laborers, and could not return home through the national examination system. Nor could they uproot their families and move back to their place of origin. They couldn’t even consider themselves in service of the nation’s expectations anymore. All they could do was place expectations on the shoulders of their grandchildren.
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