Yang Kuo-hsiang was born in a poor peasant family in Yuhsi County in Yunnan Province, South-west China, and tended cows for a landlord at the age of nine. One year the Kuomintang reactionaries pressganged men and Yang Kuo-hsiang was forced to leave his village.]

, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.284: They are commonly sad and tetric by nature, as Ahab's spirit was because he could not get Naboth's vineyard […]

Both the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems, which in speed tower head-and-shoulders over other American lines, have added substantially to their high speed mileage between 1939 and 1940, ….

He had met his then girlfriend when he had just started university. The relationship ended unhappily when the girlfriend complained that he never wanted to go out.