The Crab The Wise Man， the Fool and the Slave On Presenting a View First Love Books and I Mid-life Loneliness Winter in White Horse Lake Loving Memories of Mother National Crisis vs Heroic Nation The Living Present Mr. about-the-same Never Give up the Pursuit of Learning Reflections on the Sports Meet Wayside Roses Dusk The White Hair An Inkwash Painting The Grave Under the Linden Tree The Cuckoo Peanuts I Took a Wooden Boat Enjoying the Moon A Place Without Autumn Insects The Commercial Press and I Nothing Is Impossible to a Willing Mind Getting Married at 81 How I Started My Career as a Novelist The Sight of Father's Back Transient Days Tribute to the White Poplar Fog Autumn in Peiping A Chat about Marriage On "Reading Is Always Beneficial" Gradualness Parting Sorrows Love Is Not a Game Recollections of My High School Days Fond Memories of Peiping On Growing Flowers The Dog Honest Poverty Childhood Wild Grass No Title The Torrent of Life Smile Stars on a Snowy Night The Land of My Ancestors Grandpa and Nightly Blackout A Chat about Short Essays My Childhood Dreamlike Childhood A Profile of Sa Zhenbing Joys of the Teaching Career Tidings of Spring My Narrow Escape from a Wolfs Jaws From Chongqing to Hakone Life Begins at 80 Another Letter to Young Readers A Wooden Clog Father Is the Ear Less Reliable than the Eye? —About the Story of Jiao Wei Qin If I Were King Time Is Life Learning and Personal Inclination On Men The Camel Cultivating Good Habits A Little Chat about English Grammar Random Thoughts (Excerpt) A Brief Sketch of Peng Dehuai Carpenter Lao Chen Friends Dreams Preface to the Torrent Trilogy Be a Fighter "Good-bye, My Ill-fated Motherland!" Sunrise at Sea The Dog The Tiger A Rickshaw Boy Throwing off My Dark Shadow The Dragon 1,300 Yuan More Memories of Xiao Shan