Thank you for all the other suggestions I found on your site and for the photos. This is a wonderful personal history of her family from the 1870's to the present. It includes the fall of the imperial system, Mao's rise to power, and Deng Xiaoping's reforms all set to her family's point of view. I think that Mao Zedong indeed caused lots of suffering among the Chinese in China during the Cultural Revolution and after it as well. Many people had a bad ending.
China is still under communist rule.
I don't think this type of rule is suitable for China. China could prosper if it changed to democratic rule. Under communist rule, the Chinese masses do not have as much freedom to participate in the economic progress. The people in China do not have as high a standard of living as Singaporeans. The average monthly pay in China is the equivalent to 200 Singapore dollars.