This book consists of 69 interviews, ,reflecting a wide range of personal experiences between 1978 and 1990. In these personal interviews, Chinese people talk about both the ordinary and extraordinary events in their lives.A poor farmer on the Loess Plateau says that all he needs is water to have everything in rife. A prisoner, convicted for a number of crimes, talks about his own childhood misfortunes. A Guangdong hairstylist working in Beijing and a self-em ployed taxi driver in Shanghai both