TheDragon\'sVillage_AnAutobiographicalNov.epub

To my husband and my son Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Foreword 1. To the Sound of Guns 2. A Glimpse of the Other Side 3. I Choose My Future 4. Journey to the Northwest 5. Cold Welcome in Longxiang 6. The Women 7. Meeting 8. The First Sacrifice 9. Night Shadows 10. Criticism and Self-Criticism 11. The Search 12. Two Confrontations 13. In a Grove of Trees 14. Electioneering 15. Shattered Jade 16. By a Grave, in a Wineshop 17. The Election 18. Three Deaths 19. Vacillation 20. Riding a Tiger he would dedicate it with an Italianate gesture of his outstretched arms to the most attractive lady in the room. If the guests were more numerous than his inspirations, sometimes the same poem would have to suffice for several women in turn. As the old Chinese saying has it, “You listen to the man who feeds you.” So my aunt and I—they had adopted me as a child when my parents died—listened and, when we had guests, led the applause. My uncle’s muse usually arrived on Sunday mornings before breakfast. My aunt and I would wait in the breakfast room, scanning the newspaper whil......