Siheyuan: Nurturing in Silence

Hao Lei, born into the Red Boy Scouts, endured the long War of Resistance Against Japan and studied at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University for six months. His father died on the battlefield, and after liberation, his mother took charge of a military hospital. His older sister, three years his senior, was unmarried and, like their father, a steadfast communist. Hao Lei was already a division commander in the main force when he was wounded in his first battle while his unit was traveling through a foreign battlefield. He was sent back to China, then enrolled at Renmin University. A year later...