摘要
TIAN Xiaofang was born in a small mountain village of Banlishu Township, Miao Autonomous County of Mayang, Hunan Province. Owing to their hardscrabble life in the mountains, four generations of her family had never had the chance to go to school. Her father had lost the ability to do heavy physical work after breaking a rib in a farming accident, and from then on, her mother had taken on nearly all the labor for the whole family. To lighten the family’s financial burden,
