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Jessie Coulson, in the introduction to a 1966 Penguin publication that includes the story, states of "A Nasty Story": Its theme is the terrible gulf between a man's idea of himself, his ideals, and his motives, and what they prove to be in the harsh light of reality.
An anecdote [1] [2] is "a story with a point", [3] such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait.
Yang was an editor for The Journal of Asian Studies from 1995 to 2001, and for the journal Peasant Studies from 1981 to 1994. [ 5 ] Among his most recent works is a translation of Thakur Gadadhar Singh 's account of his travel to China as part of a multi-country contingent that was sent to suppress the Boxer Rebellion .