"The author of this memoir, Ping-Nan Yang, was born in 1908 near Lianyungang on the eastern coast of China. A gifted young scholar, he became a teacher at the age of sixteen. Later, after the tangled romance told in this book, he served as a political commissar in China's national army and fought against the Japanese invasion. He wrote this story in Chinese during his later years, in Taiwan, in 1987."--Back cover.
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"The author of this memoir, Ping-Nan Yang, was born in 1908 near Lianyungang on the eastern coast of China. A gifted young scholar, he became a teacher at the age of sixteen. Later, after the tangled romance told in this book, he served as a political commissar in China's national army and fought against the Japanese invasion. He wrote this story in Chinese during his later years, in Taiwan, in 1987."--Back cover.
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