In the selection from A Long Way Home, what does the narrator remeber about his original hometown

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

india has always been known for its ancient civilizations and contributions to the betterment of modern humankind. the written records of the first record of sugar were found, sugar was found to be used in hindu religious ceremonies and rituals along with milk, butter, cheese, and honey. the fire had been one of the very important elements in the hindu religion. the fire is known to be unpolluted.