Each time that General Liu Chih-tan arrived in a place, he always opened out his maps and studied them carefully. Then he would look for villagers to talk to, asking them about this and about that. In 1934, he led a part of the Northern Shensi Red Army, stationing them at Hua-an Monastery in Ch'ing-chien County. The chief of the food ministry in Ch’ing-chien County also lived in the village.]

Papinian, Ulpian, Scævola, here, unite / To assure the spirit severe of its prescriptive right / To freeëst choice, as fits intelligence, / Of Deity sired, and heired with conscience, reason, sense / Of citizenship on high, the heavenly state, / All conquering, freeing all; intangible, even, of fate.

So long as these men have a lobang they will raise money in order to pay their debts, otherwise the European merchants are the sufferers.

She swept a hand toward the wide hallway where three landscapey paintings he had never really liked hung side by side.