New York Marlowe & Company (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of upheaval and revolution in China. In the 1940s, the Chen family fled their native China and escaped to the U.S. during the civil war, after being persecutied in Chunking during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45..However, when they were repatriated in the 1950s, they had to endure the Cultural Revolution, separation, imprisonment and re-education, xii, 322 pp. ISBN: 1-56924-7420.