As a Baby Duck Listens to Thunder is a love story.... My position as a Foreign Expert in English was my first real teaching job in a career that spanned more than thirty years. I could never have imagined China would be a destination in my life, but it was. And at such a moment in history Chairman Mao had been dead only six years. The evil Gang of Four had been "tried" only the year before. The horrors of the Cultural Revolution were still close...