Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Questions

1. Who is Jiang Jieshi?
2. What happened to Luo's father? Did he die...?
3. Why did Luo not cry for his father?
4. How long ago was it when Luo's father was punished for speaking about Mao?
   
5. Where were they before being sent to Phoenix Mountain?
6. How educated were the friends?
7. Did the narrator's violin get destroyed when they were sent off to be "reeducated"?
8. Who did the narrator learn violin from?