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Copyright © 1980 by Yuan-tsung Chen All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Chen, Yuan-tsung, 1932- The dragon’s village. I. Title. PZ.C51794Dr 1980 [PR9272.9.C514] 823 79-3315 eISBN: 978-0-307-83194-1 v3.1 To my husband and my son For invaluable encouragement and support, I would like to thank Harrison Salisbury and Jay Leyda; for incisive questioning and advice, Wendy Wolf. 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 Electio......