Registration And Other Stories [antikvár]

YYlty 0.W-O Uobtb by Kang Chuo Kang Chuo, a native of Hsiangyin County in Hunan Province, was born in 1920. His father was an intellectual, who early influenced his son's love for new literature. In 1937, after the outbreak of the War of Resistance to Japanese Aggression, Kang Chuo went to the countryside to mobilize the people. In 1938, he enrolled at the Literature Department of Lu Hsun Arts' Institute in Yenan, the then revolutionary centre. Later he went to Shansi as a war correspondent and worked for many years among peasants in the liberated areas. He started writing in 1941. Among his published works are collections of short stories like "My Two Hosts," "A Young Intellectual in the Countryside," and "Worker Chang Fei-hu." In addition to short stories, tales for children, essays and adaptations of folk tales, he has also written a novel "A Tale of the Hehshihpo Mine." I was preparing to move from Lower Village to Upper Village. On the eve, I had been to Upper Village to take a look at my new lodging. The room allotted to me was in a roadside house in the western part of the village. The owner of the house was an old man named Chen Yun-nien. On my return to Lower Village, Shuan-chu, from whom I was moving, asked me how I had liked the new place and offered to accompany me there on the morrow. I thanked him for his offer, but declined it: "I haven't got many things, and a cadre like you is a busy man. Since the winter school has just opened, you had better go about your own work." But he insisted, "It's only about five li1 away! I'm 1 One It is equal to 0.3107 mile. 1