Yellow River and Green Mountains

As a teenager, Huang Renyu dreamed of becoming Napoleon. Years later, he found himself serving as a junior officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army. His soldiers earned 12 yuan a month, but each could earn 7,000 yuan if they took a light machine gun and defected to the bandits in the nearby hills. Under these circumstances, it's no surprise that Huang Renyu didn't become a military hero.
He later traveled to India and Burma. In "Huang Renyu's Works: Yellow River and Green Mountains: Memoirs of Huang Renyu," Western readers will have a firsthand opportunity to understand the vicious rivalry between General Stilwell's American staff and the Chinese field troops, observing it from the latter's perspective. Our author was there.

2015-08-01

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