Epoch Times CEO Janice Trey’s thirst for truth sprouted from an unlikely place: a Chinese labor camp.
She was born in the middle of the Cultural Revolution—one of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zhedong’s campaigns that targeted traditional Chinese culture, killing an estimated millions.
Authorities had labeled people like her parents, college-educated engineers, as an inferior class and sent them to a labor camp in a remote southern Chinese village. There, Trey spent her first nine years, growing sugar cane, carrying fertilizers to the top of the hill, and picking crops during harvest season. Her parents farmed and sewed. To go to school, Trey walked 1 1/2 hours every day to another village, passing hills, cemeteries, and snakes, she told PragerU CEO Marissa Streit on her “Real Talk” podcast….