A SHEPHERD BECOMES A COLLEGE PROFESSOR.

The article presents information on a handbook on the technology of sheep-herding. This handbook reverses the traditional moral and political hierarchy that elevated literary amateurism above the pursuit of technical skill. The author remarks that for four generations, his ancestors herded sheep for landlords, and each generation was so poor that there was not a single tile to cover the roof and not a single plot of land to stand on. His grandfather used to be a husky fellow, but because he herded sheep for a landlord, his back became hunched, and he was afflicted with many ailments. He coughed a good deal and would spit up half a bowl of saliva mixed with blood. The author's father herded sheep for landlord Chiang Kuei-sheng, but after a year of hardships, he could no longer support his aged and bed-ridden grandfather. The author's family had to beg from relatives and friends and borrow from here and there in order to raise forty strings of cash to give to the landlord Chiang Kuei-sheng.