Joan Hinton ~ Mom, nuclear physicist.
William Hinton ~ Mom's brother is Owen Ingest's college classmate.
Son ~ Dr. Fred Engst, named after Soong Ching Ling.
Why do they want to stay in China for a long time?
Grandpa is an orphan. He went to the coal mine as a worker and once organized a trade union. Want to realize the American dream of being a boss. Grandpa is exhausted.
Grandma lives by raising cattle and making bread and cakes in the market, and her children also go to college through work-study programs.
Dad has seven brothers and sisters, all from different parties, who grew up in fierce debates. I read a book called Red Star Shines on China in college, which changed Owen Ingest's mind. An opportunity came to China and became an animal husbandry expert. The expert came, but the cow didn't. At that time, I saw the old China, the polarized rule of the * * * production party and the Kuomintang, and went to Yan 'an. I found that I was poor, but I saw a new, ambitious, high-spirited and equal world.
The sharp contrast between Yan 'an and Changsha deeply touched him. Crows flying over Yan 'an should bring their own dry food. At that time, farmers in northern Shaanxi who fought local tyrants and divided their fields were bent on following the * * * production party. A battle with twice the result. Dad is driving the cattle north, Luohe. Decided to stay in China.
Mother Joan Hinton was born in an intellectual family and was a primary school teacher. His father was a lawyer, and Joan Hinton died at the age of two. A mathematician with only a primary school diploma. The author of The Gadfly is the youngest daughter. Joan Hinton's grandmother believes in Dewey and does not advocate homework and exams. Emphasize students' independent thinking and entertaining. A good education is to guide, inspire and start from interest. Joan Hinton likes nature and sports. Agricultural machinery in China and laboratory experiments in the United States all started from scratch.
Chatting with Yang Zhenning, I said: I don't hate farming, but I will never be a farmer's wife.
Mom writes letters, black holes, quantum mechanics.
Dad wrote, China has changed. Come to China.
It was the China Revolution that brought them together. It took two weeks to give birth from Yan 'an to Beijing and catch up with the meeting. Soong Ching Ling invited her to represent the United States. Oppose nuclear physics as a weapon of mass murder.
Turn swords into plows.
Windmills are designed to pump water to feed cattle and sheep.
Dad invented the carriage and failed.
Later, he came to Caotan Farm in Xi 'an with 65,438+03. During the Great Leap Forward, General Wang Zhen demanded100000 chickens and100000 ducks.
Made a lawn mower.
A cooling device is manufactured,
Mother participated in the pasteurization of milk.
Parents' education for their children is what parents do and what children see. This is education.