Rhymes of Li Yu-Tsai and other stories [antikvár]

THE CREATIVE WORKS OF CHAO SHU-LI By Chou Yang AFTER THE LIBERATION, many villages have been or are in the process of gigantic transformation. Peasants waged intricate and fierce struggles against their landlords. They fought because they wanted rents and taxes to be reduced; because they believed they had the right to live and to govern themselves. During the war against Japan, this struggle helped greatly to improve the living standard and the social position of the peasantry; and the peasantry, thus strengthened, added to the people's power of resistance against the common enemy. After the victory over Japan, the fight for lower rents and taxes combined with anti-traitor and revenge movements, fully developed the battle between landlord and peasant. This battle was destined to extinguish what was left of feudalism in village-life and to lead the peasants onto the path of true liberation. After eight years of war, the peasants have become highly class-conscious and firmly united. They at last discovered the real reason why they were poverty-stricken, and they were determined to fight until they were poor no longer. They had a special terminology for their "Meetings for the Liquidation of Injustices";