摘要
IN 1968, I, a middle school graduate, went to live and work as a farmer in Dongru, a small mountain village in north China. Later, I became a shop assistant in the county town. I spent nine years of my life there—from age 17 to 26. The memory of those years has begun to fade; only some words are left here as a reminder of my youth. In May, 1971, the county’s settlement office began transferring the urban educated youth from the countryside into the county-town.
