on rape accusations against “Er Gou,” 270–272
sexual exploitation by and rape charges against, 199, 274–279
Shan’s medical work and, 199–200, 212
Zhang Yingjian (“Old Number Nine”), 294–295
Zhang Zailiang, 339, 370
Zhang Zhiqiu (“Er Gou”), 269–272, 442–444
Zhao Ziyang, 346, 393, 426–427
Zhenbao Island, military clash in (1969), 109–110, 121
Zheng Lian, 58–61, 73
Zhou Enlai China-Soviet relations and, 110
China-US relations (1970s) and, 214, 215
illness and death of, 305–306, 315–316
as Mao’s No. 2, 43
Nixon’s visit to China and, 285
Outing Liu Movement and, 68
as premier, 21, 35
reopening of colleges and, 285–286
Research Center for Culture and History and, 52
on sexual exploitation by Army Corps leaders, 278
Shan’s letter to, 238–247, 293–294, 296
“uprising of two airlines” and, 250
Zhou Wanling, 118, 119, 166–167, 219
Zhou Xiuchun, 25, 27
Zhuang Zedong, 213–214
Zhu De, 64
Chapter 1 Man-Made Famine
With paternal grandpa Shan Xingsan and brother Shan Weizhong
in 1957.
With mother, Wang Wenli, and brother in 1959.
With mother and brother in Beijing’s Beihai Park on May 1, 1962.
Chapter 2 School Cut Short
Family portrait, c. 1962. Left to right, front row: Brother, maternal grandma Song Pei’e, the author. Back row: Aunt Wang Wenfang (mother’s younger sister), mother, father Shan Yi, and sister Shan Weimin.
With brother and sister, c. 1965.
Chapter 4 Turmoil Under Heaven
In October 1966, at a well said to be dug by Mao Zedong at Sha Zhou Ba, Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, capital of the “Chinese Soviet Republic” from 1933 to 1934. Left to right, front row: Wang Yuanbo, the author, Qin Zhiqiang; back row: Wu Junjie, Huang Zhengfu, Zheng Lian, He Yuzhou.
At Huang Yang Jie, Jing Gang Mountain, Jingxi Province, in October 1966. Jiang Gang was the first Red Army base Mao established in 1927. The monument commemorates the victory of the Red Army over the Nationalist troops. The inscription on the monument is by Zhu De, Commander in Chief of the Red Army: “The Memorial of Victory in the Battle of Defense at Huang Yang Jie.” From left to right, Wang Yuanbo (with cane), unknown, the author, and Wu Junjie.
Chapter 5 Exiled to the Gobi
The author, in Urat Qianqi, shortly after arrival in the Gobi in 1969.
The author, horsing around without a saddle in the Gobi.
Chapter 9 Battling Frozen Lake
With Li Baoquan (right) in front of self-built makeshift reed-and-mud hut in Xiao Ming Sha by Lake Wuliangsu during reed-cutting season (December 1970 to February 1971).
Liu Xiaotong, bundling up cut-down reeds and piling them up on the frozen lake.
Author, cutting reeds on the frozen lake in deep winter.
Chapter 12 Barefoot Doctor
With Liu Xiaotong (right).
With Li Baoquan (right), company barracks in the background.
Chapter 15 Pigs Don’t Fly
With airman and pig squad captain Yi Kong (right).
The author chasing a bull.
Chapter 17 Desert Dreams of College
At farewell to Zhang Yingfan, who was selected to go to college in September 1971. From left to right, front row: Wang Chunlian, Cui Xianchao, Yan Chongjie, Li Baoquan; back row: the author, Li Rongtian, Zhang Yingfan, Wang Dacheng, Liu Xiaotong.
Gobi friends on home leave in Beijing, 1974. Left to right, front row: Cui Xianchao, Yang Yulong, Li Changsheng, Wang Dacheng; back row: Ding Desheng (“Dasheng” or “Great Saint”), Yang Shengchen, Liu Xiaotong, Li Rongtian, Qin Zhiqiang, Huang Shurong, the author, Li Zhuangzhong, Wang Zutong.
Chapter 18 Last Convulsions of the Revolution
Tiananmen Square on April 4 1976. The author took the pictures of the mass protest against the radicals led by Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, in the name of mourning Premier Zhou Enlai, who died on January 8 of the same year. The crackdown on the next day marked the event as “April 5th Movement” of 1976 in Chinese history.
Chapter 19 Roads to Rome
With Bin Shi at the Great Wall, summer 1978.
With Bin in 1979. We were married in 1980.
Chapter 20 Old Gold Mountain
Chapter 21 The People’s Republic of Berkeley
The author (far left) chatting with Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, in 1980.
Our family with the Cassous at Berkeley, 1987. From left to right, front row: son Bo, wife Bin, April Cassou; back row: Philip Cassou, the author.
Chapter 22 Ivy League Professor
In my office at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
Lecturing a Wharton class for senior executives, 1990.
Berlin, March 17, 1990. Wharton colleague Skip Rosoff sarcastically
gesturing to compare a Mercedes (left) and the shoddy boxy car (right) made in East Germany.
Berlin, March 17, 1990. The author (hand up in a victory sign) and Wharton colleague Isik Inselbag.
With wife Bin, son Bo, and daughter LeeAnn on her first birthday in October 1992.
Wharton kids: Bo and LeeAnn in 1993.
Family in Grand Teton Park in 1995.
Epilogue
The Gobi in 2005. To protect the sparse vegetation, only camels, considered to be endangered, are still allowed to graze the land.
With Zhang Zhiqiu (Er Gou), right, at Fanshengedan by Lake Wuliangsu,
with the crumbling barracks used during reed-cutting seasons in the background, on July 10, 2005.
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