By Richard Terrill

Winner, 1988 Associated Writing Programs Award for Nonfiction

The University of Arkansas Press, 1990

"Because he notices so much, and writes with such grace and wit and sorrow of the ways in which human beings can be confounded by their lives, Richard Terrill takes us with him to a provincial Chinese town where we are totally immersed."

--Gloria Emerson

"...Richard Terrill shows us the disparity between the rising expectations of China's young and the very limited opportunities under the present bureaucracy... Terrill's greatest achievement is managing to shrink modern China to a human scale."

--John Hildebrand

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