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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)


               determination.  I said that  if I could  not  become


               outstanding, I would not see her. I said that I couldn’t



               make good speeches at meetings because I was slow


               of tongue and clumsy of  speech by nature. But I



               could write. I said I would set the Thames on fire.


               Otherwise I would disappear from the world.



                       I soon received  a letter from her. She  said if I


               could amaze the world by a single, brilliant feat she



               would immediately marry me.



                       I spent a few nights in a row writing an article


               with the title “Mao Zedong thought lights up the road


               to  a  girl’s  heart” and had  it published  in a local



               newspaper. I said before that I was a politically



               backward young  man. I was very backward. I


               couldn’t mouth beautiful political words and couldn’t



               write beautiful political articles. So how did I write a


               successful political  article and  have  it published in



               the  local newspaper? Well, I  had learnt  the  most





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