Ⅰ．MY EARLY YEARS 1
I Was Fortunate in My Parents 1
Memories from Childhood 3
Trained to Be Tough in Castle Rock 9
At Christchurch Boys'High School 11
A Family of Teachers 14
Student to Soldier 15
Halting the German Advance on the Somme 18
Why All This? 21
Taranaki Farm 23
Six Years of Loneliness and Struggle 27
Ⅱ．SHANGHAI DAYS 31
How I Came to Know China 31
Off to Shanghai 33
As a Fire Inspector 35
Factory Inspection in Shanghai 38
The Evil Contract Labour System 41
Holiday Tours to Know China Better 43
A Challenge in Thinking 46
Famine in the Northwest 47
Relief Work in Salaqi 50
Flood Relief and Reconstruction in Hubei 54
The Spirit of Honghu 56
Suppression Instead of Relief 58
Back to New Zealand with Alan 63
Shanghai Underground 65
Agnes Smedley—a Bom Agitator 67
People with Like Minds 70
Work Underground 72
The Granichs and the Voice of China 75
Memories of Lu Xun in Shanghai 78
Soong Ching Ling—a Memory to Linger On 81
The Man Behind the Scenes 83
Adventure as a Money Changer 85
Round the World Trip 89
Shanghai Under Attack by Japanese 92
Ⅲ．GUNG HO IN THE WAR OF RESISTANCE 95
Gung Ho Initiated 95
Gung Ho Headquarters Set Up in Wuhan 99
The First Regional Headquarters in Baoji 101
Getting Southeast Work on the Way 104
Southern Jiangxi：The Old Base of the Red Army 108
To Yan'an with the Indian Medical Unit 112
Meeting Chairman Mao in Yan'an 117
The Chuan-Kang Region of Gung Ho 121
To the New Fourth Army Area with Evans Carlson 124
Vignettes of the Southwest Tour 130
Gung Ho International Committee 135
Wartime Chongqing 140
The Kuomintang Sabotage of Gung Ho 147
My Discharge from the Executive Yuan Position 151
Travelling in the Old Days 154
From Gung Ho to Shandan：a Summing-Up 162
Ⅳ．SHANDAN—CULTIVATE PEOPLE FOR THE FUTURE 169
Bailie Schools—Gung Ho's Training Project 169
Pei Li—to Train for the Dawn 173
Our Move from Shuangshipu to the West 175
Shandan--an Oasis on the Silk Road 179
Our"Little Long March" 184
George Hogg—the One Who Gave His Very Best to the School 187
The Growth of the School 190
The International Aspect of the School 199
Incidents in the Adventure 204
With the Children in Leitai 207
Dawn in Shandan 211
The School After Liberation 218
Create and Analyse--Motto for a New Pattern of Education 222
Ⅴ．LIFE AND WORK AFTER LIBERATION 227
Beijing in 1951 227
The Passing of Agnes Smedley 231
The First Peace Conference in Beijing 234
Intemational Conferences for Peace and Solidarity 237
Some Unpleasant Experiences 240
Writing for China and Peace 243
On My Books 246
Poetry to Deal with Life and People 251
My Translations of Chinese Poetry 254
Visits to My Homeland and Australia 257
New Zealand and China 261
Over China Through the Post-Liberation Years 263
A New EraBegins 266
Travel with the New Zealand Film Team 269
With Anna Louise Strong in New China 274
Three Great American Women 277
A Star Falls 281
For a SanerCleaner World to Be 285
Shandan Revisited 289
The Fruit of the Shandan School 292
Gung Ho Revived 296
My Home Life in Beijing 298
Children in China 304
Chinese Ceramics and Antiques 309
Afforestation--Fighting Erosion 314
The Spirit of New China 319
CATALOGUE OF REWI ALLEY'S WORKS 323
CHRONOLOGY 327