his daughter Yinqiao told me. “People appreciated his decency. Four hundred people attended his funeral. We did not expect so many.”
I think until the end of his life he was afraid. A lot of these people who suffered so much thought that the present was just another political movement. They were never sure that things would not go back to the way they were.引自 14 The Tomb of the Emperor
And to Peter Hessler—thank you for showing me the possibilities, in life and in writing. Every writer should have a reader such as you.引自 14 The Tomb of the Emperor