Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Setting Out on a Second Life
2 First Success——and a Great Job
3 The China Maelstrom
4 Manchuria and the Threat from Japan
5 The Cost of"a line or two that may not die"
6 Mothers Death and Escape
7 Good-bye Shanghai
8 Formosa, Canton, Hong Kong, and Macao
9 The Embrace of France
10 Within the Shadows of the Golden Horse and the Jade Phoenix
11 On Caravan South of the Clouds
12 Compelled by the Golden Spire
13 India: The Challenge of Yet Another National Revolution
14 An Attractive Woman and Hopeful Writer Lands in Shanghai and His Life
15 Wars Obscenities and a Secular Madonnas Grace
16 A Book Rejected, a Marriage Proposal Accepted
17 The Wedding and a Repeat Journey
18 A New Home and Two Long Shots Come In
19 Author of a Book
20 The Threat of Fascism
21 From the Academy into the Cause
22 The Students Demonstrate, and a Door Opens
23 Where Journalism Meets Literature
24 To Sian: Stage One
25 Chou and Mao, in Person
26 Measuring the Revolutionary Force
27 The Real Red Army
28 The Home Front
29 History and His Story
30 Amid Challenging Distractions
31 More Mixed Messages between Yenan and Peking
32 Seeds Planted in Shanghais Garden of War
33 Snows Star Rises in the West
34 Seeding Indusco in Besieged Hankow
35 All These Irons in the Fire
36 Distant Thunder in Europe
37 Clearing the Way for Battle for Asia
38 Asia Hears the Thunder in Europe
39 An Alien Corn Adrift
40 The Retuming Author Challenges America
41 From Hot to Cold War
42 The Ghost at the Banquet
Notes
Bibliography