PREFACE I. MY EARLY YEARS I Was Fortunate in My Parents Memories from Childhood Trained to Be Tough in Castle Rock At Christchurch Boys High School A Family of Teachers Student to Soldier Halting the German Advance on the Somme Why All This? Taranaki Farm Six Years of Loneliness and Struggle Ⅱ SHANGHAI DAYS How I Came to Know China Off to Shanghai As a Fire Inspector Factory Inspection in Shanghai The Evil Contract Eabour System Holiday Tours to Know China Better A Challenge in Thinking Famine in the Northwest Relief Work in Salaqi Flood Relief and Reconstruction in Hubei The Spirit of Honghu Suppression Instead of Relief Back to New Zealand with Alan Shanghai Underground Agnes Smedley——a Born Agitator People with Like Minds Work Underground The Granichs and the Voice of China Memories of Lu Xun in Shanghai Soong Ching Ling——a Memory to Linger On The Man Behind the Scenes Adventure as a Money Changer Round the World Trip Shanghai Under Attack by Japanese Ⅲ. GUNG HO IN THE WAR OF RESISTANCE Gung Ho Initiated Gung Ho Headquarters Set Up in Wuhan The First Regional Headquarters in Baoji Getting Southeast Work on the Way Southern Jiangxi: The Old Base of the Red Army To Yahan with the Indian Medical Unit Meeting Chairman Mao in Yahan The Chuan-Kang Region of Gung Ho To the New Fourth Army Area with Evans Carlsor Vignettes of the Southwest Tour Gung Ho International Committee Wartime Chongqing The Kuomintang Sabotage of Gung Ho My Discharge from the Executive Yuan Position Travelling in the Old Days From Gung Ho to Shandan: a Summing-Up IV. SHANDAN ~ CUL TIVA TE PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE Bailie Schools —— Gung Hos Training Project Pei Li —— to Train for the Dawn Our Move from Shuangshipu to the West Shandan —— an Oasis on the Silk Road Our \