Here & Now‘s Scott Tong has been reporting from China all week, and he was able to track down a family story. He never met his grandfather, who was a political prisoner and died in a labor camp. It was seen as a shameful chapter in his family’s history and was never talked about, but 70 years later, Scott tells the story.
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