The Road to Shu is Difficult (with Mei Yiqi's Diary and Zheng Tianting's Bills)

About This Novel

In May 1941, Mei Yiqi, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Southwest Associated General Assembly, Zheng Tianting, general administrator, and Luo Changpei, director of the Chinese Department and Chinese Language Department of the Normal University, flew from Kunming to Chongqing to begin a three-month academic and cultural inspection in Sichuan. During the difficult journey, he dragged himself through mud and water, wore a moon cloak, cut roads through mountains, built bridges across rivers, and hurriedly escaped several warnings. He went through the pains of traveling during the Anti-Japanese War. During the journey, he "studied academics, enjoyed the scenery, interviewed folk customs, and expressed condolences to friends." Luo Changpei wrote his experiences along the way into a diary-like travelogue - "The Difficult Road to Shu", which is a true record of the actual journey, academic status, and character dynamics at a certain time and place on the Shu Road during the middle period of the Anti-Japanese War. Mei Yiqi, Zheng Tianting, and Luo Changpei all originally kept diaries during their trip. Today, only Mei Yiqi's diary has been preserved. Zheng Tianting, as the financial manager of the trip, also left a list of accounts, recording in detail the prices of transportation, accommodation, meals, theater and other items of that era. Now that this part of Mei Yiqi's diary and Zheng Tianting's bills are attached to the relevant chapters of "The Difficulties of the Road to Shu", the three people read the materials together, showing a vivid picture that makes people feel like they are personally there.

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