Illustrated by Zhang Yunkai & Zhu Ziqing 
View from the Rear 

The View from the Rear is a reminiscent essay written by the modern writer Zhu Ziqing in 1925. It tells the story of the author’s departure from Nanjing to Beijing University, where his father walked him to the Pukou Station, took care of him on the way to the train, and bought oranges for him. The most impressive thing in the author’s mind was his father’s back as he climbed up and down the platform to buy the oranges for him. The author uses plain and simple words to create the image of an ordinary father in the human world, reflecting the father’s care and love from ordinary events, expressing the father’s deep love for his son and the son’s longing for his father in a profound, delicate and sincere way, touching and influencing generations of readers.