Henry Carter Hull

A fictional biography of Pearl S. Buck in which the author, as a child, forms a friendship with a young Chinese girl that follows the women through adulthood as they deal with matters of love, loyalty, and repression.

During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.

Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.

"In the late summer of 1819, Samuel Russell, a young mill-goods agent from Connecticut, sets sail for China, seeking to make a name--and a fortune--for himself. After a tempestuous, months-long sea passage, Russell arrives in the ancient city of Canton, on the banks of the Pearl River. He steps into an exotic new world, a teeming, gritty waterfront crammed with sampans and street vendors, dockworkers and beggars, entrepreneurs, charlatans, and opportunists,...

When Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, learns that the Chinese army has developed a submarine that has the capability to launch a nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean, he sends out America's most lethal weapon, a 9,000 ton submarine, to destroy the threat.