Page 5 of Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother

March 24, 2022 by Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. founder, Touch Display Research Inc.

Below is page 5 of my: “Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother”.

(Continued from page 4)

My mother was born in 1945, four years before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Starting from her generation, Chinese women would all have natural feet.

In 2021, sitting in my sunny Texas backyard and looking at my natural size-eight feet, I thought about all the women in history until now throughout China and the world. Women have produced every boy and girl from their womb. Women’s lives reflect their time and society.

My grandma loved me. I slept with my grandma in the same bed every night when I was a kid.

My grandma liked to connect doors, which meant visiting other neighbors without invitation. Connecting doors was very common and normal in the 1970s China. We didn’t respect other’s privacy. The hospitality was to let them in whenever your friends, neighbors, or relatives knocked on your door. My grandma would let me hold the bottom of her dark blue blouse. I would be like her shadow. We walked to a neighbor’s house and my grandma knocked on their door. The neighbor lady opened the door and welcomed us in. Neighbor lady would pull a stool for my grandma and a small stool for me to sit on. My grandma and the neighbor lady would chat and chat. I would sit there and wait for a long time. As a five-year old, I had no idea what these adults were talking about. After a while, I would tell grandma, “I’m hungry, let’s go home.” The neighbor lady would walk to a basket that was hanging on a metal wire. People kept their food in a basket on a metal wire so rats couldn’t get to the food. She would find a piece of steaming bun or a piece of sweet potato bun and hand it to me. I would be very happily eating. They would chat more and more.

I did help with house work by fetching sweet potatoes from the underground cellar. Since there were no refrigerators or freezers, my grandparents kept some of their sweet potatoes in an underground cellar. The cellar’s opening was in a yard covered with a wooden lid. When we needed sweet potatoes, my grandpa would call me to help and let five-year-old me sit in a large willow-woven basket. He would tie a rope on the basket handle and slowly lower it in the underground cellar. When the basket with me in it reached the bottom of the cellar, I would step out of the basket and look around. It was dark with some sweet potatoes on the bottom. When I looked up, I saw my grandpa’s face at the edge of the bright circle above me.

My grandpa would say to me “Little Jen, put some sweet potatoes in the basket.”

I would do so. Then grandpa would say “That’s enough. Little Jen, sit in the basket.” I would step in the basket with sweet potatoes. Grandpa would pull the rope and the basket with me in it would rise to the ground of the yard. We were a team.

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Touch Display Research, Inc. (https://TouchDisplayResearch.com) is a technology market research and consulting firm specializing in touch screen and emerging display technologies such as OLED displays, quantum dots, flexible displays, e-paper displays, ITO-replacement, Active pen, near-eye displays, smart windows, micro & mini LED, gesture controls, voice controls, eye controls and Batteries. Touch Display Research helps technology companies grow and connecting their technologies to the marketplace. We have been writing about OLED industry for over 10 years. We were the first company to publish Quantum Dot market reports. We were the first company to publish Active Pen market report, and ITO-replacement market report.  We have always been there to analyze new and emerging technologies. Touch Display Research provides reports, consulting, and due diligence to touch suppliers, display manufacturers, semiconductor companies, consumer electronics ODMs/OEMs, material suppliers, investors and venture capitalists. Battery Market Research is a subsidiary division of Touch Display Research, and focuses on battery technologies and market. For report and consulting, please visit our website: TouchDisplayResearch.com. 

About the Author

Dr. Jennifer K. Colegrove is the founder and CEO of Touch Display Research Inc. (www.TouchDisplayResearch.com), a market research and consulting firm that focuses on touch screen, display, sensor, battery and emerging technologies.

Dr. Colegrove has over twenty years of industry experience.  She holds many analyst “firsts”: She was the first analyst to write a comprehensive touch screen industry report since 2006 (therefore, she is called “Doctor Touch” by her colleagues); she was the first analyst to write an active pen industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write an ITO-replacement industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write a quantum dot industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write a touchless HMI industry report since 2014.

She has authored over one hundred market forecast reports and over one hundred published articles. She is frequently quoted by media and industry press including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Dr. Colegrove has been a featured speaker and session chairperson at over one hundred worldwide conferences. Dr. Colegrove has advised over two hundred companies through her standard reports or consulting projects in recent years.

She has five patent applications with one U.S. patent granted.

Dr. Colegrove has a Ph.D. from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University in Ohio. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors from Peking University in Beijing, China. To learn more about Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and her work, you can visit the website: www.TouchDisplayResearch.com  or JenniferColegrove.com