ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig23_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Ye Xin (b. 1949) is the most prolific writer in this book. Originally from Shanghai, he was sent to Xiuwen County, Guizhou Province, as a rusticated youth in 1969. There he became a peasant, then worked on the construction of the Hunan-Guizhou Railway. Even though he lived in dreadful conditions—hard labor, not enough to eat, no paper to write on—he was determined to write. In this interview, Ye Xin gives a graphic account of the difficulties he had in getting his works published during the mid-1970s.
