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JOURNEY FROM THE EAST - Mark J. Gayn- Knopf...
...Mark Gayn's earliest memories is of a file of Chinese soldiers marching past his father's house in Manchuria. Civilians marching with them carried long poles from which swung a row of decapitated heads. Gayn also remembers (when he was seven) huddling with his mother on the floor while Chinese bandits' bullets whistled through the windows...
...Author Gayn's father was a Russian lumberman. Most of Gayn's childhood was spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...Mark Gayn was born in 1909 at Barim, Manchuria. Most of the incidents he records in this personal history were part &; parcel of modern China's terrible 30 years' struggle to become a united nation...
...Time to Laugh. Gayn's mother was a thwarted opera singer from Siberia. His playmates were Russians, Chinese and Germans. When Gayn was 14 he went to a Soviet school in Vladivostok, where his training included work in machine shops and factories. "We are too busy to laugh," shouted a Communist orator. In 1929, after a short stay in a Shanghai academy, Gayn's parents sent...