A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a sweeping historical Novel that takes us on a journey from the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, as a father and his son are swept away by a relentless series of devastating events.
Engaged to a Chinese-American violinist who is the daughter of a missionary father and a Shangha.
It\'s 1950, and pianist Li Tongshu is one of the few Chinese to have graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
A uniquely experienced observer of China gives us a sweeping historical Novel that takes us on a journey from the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, as a father and his son are swept away by a relentless series of devastating events