Word: shisheng
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...Anhui province, Charles met his first wife and had two sons, Shide and Shisheng. His wife died after an agonizing three-year siege of cancer. Soon after, Charles left town on a KMT assignment in Wuhu; he didn't see his sons again for 40 years. "I didn't even remember him leaving," Shisheng recalls. "I only knew I got out of bed and he was gone...
...Charles' first two sons did have bowls, and they needed them: the '60s Cultural Revolution reduced them to begging. Shisheng, labeled a counterrevolutionary, was sent to the countryside for seven years' hard labor. Still he pined for his father: "I dreamed of him in a plane, circling over me but unable to land." In the '80s, when Charles located his sons, one was working in a post office, the other in a pig sty. Meanwhile, the runt of Charles' litter had become Hong Kong's top film star, although until a few years ago Jackie didn't know that...
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