The old buildings on both sides stand flush with the road and all have wooden shopfronts. The downstairs is for business and upstairs there is washing hung out to dry – nappies, bras, underpants with patched crotches, floral-print bedspreads – like flags of all the nations, flapping in the noise and dust of the traffic. The concrete telegraph poles along the street are pasted at e

The old buildings on both sides stand flush with the road and all have wooden shopfronts. The downstairs is for business and upstairs there is washing hung out to dry – nappies, bras, underpants with patched crotches, floral-print bedspreads – like flags of all the nations, flapping in the noise and dust of the traffic. The concrete telegraph poles along the street are pasted at eye level with all sorts of posters.

In the orange-yellow sunlight of early morning, the mountain scenery is fresh and the air is clean, and it doesn’t seem that you’ve had a sleepless night. You have your arm around soft gentle shoulders and her head is resting on you. You don’t know whether or not she is the woman you dreamt of during the night, and can’t tell which of them is more real, you only know that right now she has willingly come with you and isn’t worried about where you are taking her.

Later on, after many setbacks, he managed to get a teaching position in a newly-established university in Tangshan. However, how could it have been foreseen that he would be labelled the claws and teeth of anti-revolutionary black group elements and hauled out for public criticism. He suffered for almost ten years before the verdict “case unsubstantiated” was declared.
He was transferred out of Tianjin just ten days before the big earthquake of 1976. Those who had trumped up the case against him were crushed to death in a building which collapsed, it was in the middle of the night and not one of them escaped.

Many a girl took his great, unhappy destiny very much to heart, for even from a distance his affliction showed. When he was with others, his eyes tended to flutter, flicker like wind-worried lights, stillness stirred by a breath of air.

Many a girl took his great, unhappy destiny very much to heart, for even from a distance his affliction showed. When he was with others, his eyes tended to flutter, flicker like wind-worried lights, stillness stirred by a breath of air.

The virtuous are vexed by their own ceaseless virtue. A person must have been bad to feel a longing for good. And he must have experienced a life of disorder to desire order in his life. Thus from orderliness comes disorder, from virtue vice, from taciturnity speech, from lies honesty, from the latter the former, and both the world and the life of our attributes are round, are they not…