My Dream of Chairman Mao       I dreamed of Chairman Mao.  It was the Mao of the Yan’an period with a tall and slender figure and long hair, his expression was stern.  He emerged from his office in the caves that looked so much like a village production team’s lodgings.  He came to look at the people who were standing on the threshing ground.  They were mostly Central Committee members. ... 

A Love of Scene Li Zhanyang I was born in the suburbs of Changchun city in Jilin Province in China, 1969.  When I was growing up, the market opposite our house left a deep impression on me.  When the market gathered a tide of people came surging, bustling in.  In the winter, people in the North-east of China wear thick padded cotton coats, they talk loudly, spewing out clouds of white steam.  They...