The Dog Years of Reeducation

Contents

I

1 Life in the Fields

2 Picture-Taking in the Cultural Revolution

3 Reel to Reel

4 Star Watching

5 Morning Chat

6 Lunchtime

7 Break

8 In the Cotton Fields

9 Lines for My Helpers

10 Road

11 Before Supper

12 Back from the Cotton Trading Center

13 Transplanting Seedlings

14 Rice Planting

15 Burning

16 Cutting

17 Hunger

II

21 Night Life on the Farm

22 Night Swim

23 Night

24 Playing Solitaire

25 After Rain

26 Indebted to Land

27 Lotus Picking

28 Man on the Front Porch

29 Sick

30 The Lesson Learned

31 Sunset

32 Catching

33 One Winter Night

34 Wintertime in the Village

36 Ode to Night

III

39 Question

40 Memories

41 Maostalgia

42 Shouting

43 Endurance

44 The Gradation of Our Being

45 The Coming of Spring

46 Waiting

47 Letter to Girlfriend

48 Lamp

49 Pond Bathing

50 Dream

51 Notes

52 Dawn in the Village

IV

55 Goodbye

56 Leaving the Village

57 Village in the Dream

58 Fireflies

59 A Fleck of Warmth

60 Jottings

61 Inlaid Images

62 Looking Back

63 Stranger

64 Old Days in the Fields

65 A Momentary Stay

66 A Dog-eared Page

67 The Persistence of Memory

70 Acknowledgments

71 About the Author