A
I see.
B
Although she, herself, had never really accepted Jesus or gone through any of the other, uh, Christian, uh, portions of, of the faith, repentance, baptisms, et cetera, et cetera. She had always felt a very strong, uh, leaning in this direction. And whenever the cultural revolution of nineteen forty-nine occurred and most churches were either banned or their, all the clergy and so forth were killed or, or imprisoned or, and the property confiscated, she was safe because she had, you know, not officially joined the, the Christian movement.
A
Uh-huh.
B
So, anyway, she, as she grew up towards maturity, her parents, well, her dad was a doctor and, and he was rather well, you know, rather well to do in the old regime and the, the Chin-, the commu-, the communist Chinese didn't like this at all. You know, the bourgeoisie was, was, was definitely out of, uh, style, then.
A
Right.
B
Everybody was back to a commonality of one. And so they kept picking at him, picking at his, at her mother and, uh, finally, uh, started picking on her.