“But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people – men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.”

“But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people – men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.”

— Amy Tan