Old Love for Home and Country, Love and Hate Entwined

Flowers fall and leaves turn yellow. Ask not where spring has gone. The tide-takers all snap their oars and capsize.

Read the stories of the educated youths, now fading into the past.

You'll feel that half of this book is Water Margin and half is Dream of the Red Chamber.

The 1960s and 1970s.

Bold exploits came one after another, while petty pilfering fills every page. This is the final, fleeting song of chivalry on this yellow earth.

Chasing dreams and sacrificing oneself for the Way: these are the heart of the story. The dream is the research project known as