Page 8 of Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother

March 31, 2022 by Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. founder, Touch Display Research Inc.

Below is page 8 of my: “Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother”.

(Continued from page 7)

I was taken to a hospital in the nearby town, since there was no hospital in the village. I remember the hospital room was all white, very different from my grandparent’s mud brick house. Grandma and I slept in a small bed in the hospital room for several days. Some friends and relatives came to visit me and brought me crackers. I used to like crackers. But while I was in the hospital, I tasted a cracker, and thought to myself, “Why doesn’t the cracker taste good anymore?” After I recovered those crackers started to taste good again. Since then my forehead has a dent in the right temple.

Many years later, my mom told me that my grandparents were scared. They dared not tell my parents about me being hospitalized until I recovered.

Suicide neighbor and my friend Xiaoxia. China 1976

When I was about six, our neighbor’s mother committed suicide by hanging herself. She left her husband and three young children. The oldest son was about my age and his name was Xino. His younger sister was a girl named Xiaoxia who was about five years old at that time. They also had a one-year-old baby brother. Such a poor family! Three kids lost their mother at such a young age.

Late one afternoon I was wandering through the village with nothing to do. It was too early for dinner and my grandma hadn’t called me home. It started to get dark. Most people had gone home since there was no electricity in the village.

Just then, I saw five years old Xiaoxia standing near a pile of trash crying quietly. Two older boys were standing by her. I walked closer and saw the two boys using a stick to put manure on Xiaoxia’s hair. Even though the dark brown manure was stuck to her hair, Xiaoxia was just standing there and crying.

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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