"Will the Sun Rise Tomorrow?" is a memoir of Heidi Fang's childhood
in China - a childhood that felt every bit normal to her as a
child. She was born in Beijing in 1965, the year before the
Cultural Revolution. She spent her early childhood with her doting
grandmother in the countryside in Jiangsu province. In spite of
material deprivation, her early childhood was filled with freedom,
joy and a care-free spirit. By the time she reached school age,
Heidi Fang returned to Beijing to live with her parents. Her
education in the elementary school was mostly on the teachings of
Mao Zedong, leader of China at the time. Little attention was given
to academic studies since she was expected to be "sent down" to
remote countryside for manual labor after high school, as all city
youths were during the Cultural Revolution. Heidi Fang's life
drastically changed following the end of the Cultural Revolution.
All of a sudden what she needed to prepare for was college instead
of manual labor. Her middle and high school years were under an
intense pressure to study and to excel in the all-important College
Entrance Exam. Even with an unthinkable mistake in the omnipotent
exam, Heidi Fang was admitted to one of the top colleges in China.
The book contains the author's personal experiences, and stories of
her family which were told to her while she was growing up. The
events in the book are portrayed entirely from the view of Heidi
Fang as a child and teenager, without judgment or hindsight. The
title of the book came from her belief as a child that the sun
would not rise without Chairman Mao, who was always compared to the
sun in all forms of propaganda.
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