Nao Ling T'ai T'ai never had an easy life. She was born in 1867, just after the Taiping Rebellion. This was one of the bloodiest revolts in world history, which started as a peasant revolt after a scholar became a cult leader and believed that he was the brother of Jesus. China had just suffered a population boom combined with failed crops. This beginning of a famine made people gravitate towards the ideas of the rebellion and its communal properties. Almost twenty million people died. Although this was before Nao Ling was born, she tells of how many people in the cities were still living in fear. .
In her early years, she was plagued by many events that were actually rather commonplace for her time. Her parents found her a husband who seemed stable and reliable, but was actually severely addicted to opium. She implies that he was not the first or last man of her family to be affected by opium when she says "truly has opium been the curse of the lives of the women of our family"(172). His opium addiction would have led to the starvation of her and her children if Nao Ling had not learned to beg. Begging was hard for Ning Lao, it was not something that she had been raised to do. Women did not go out of the house at this time, so leaving the house daily to beg was a huge source of shame for Nao Ling. She says "But now I could not live in my house and had to come out. When I begged I begged in parts of the town where I was not knownI went with my begging stick up my sleeve, that people should not see it" (62). But the struggle with her husband's addiction did not end in starvation. One day, while begging, he sold her youngest child. The first time Nao Ling was able to get her daughter back, but after her husband sold the daughter a second time Nao Ling never saw her again.
China was historically very isolated, but the Opium Wars were the first knocks at opening the country up to the world.
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