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Song of the Azalea - Song of the Azalea
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A powerful wartime memoir recounts the life of Kenneth Ore, a former Hong Kong underground recruiter for the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1917, Ore's mother was sold to a wealthy Chinese businessman by her opium-addicted father. Rather than becoming a concubine, she was educated as a doctor and assigned to the man's oldest son whom she married and bore three children. When the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1941, the mother's courage and skill saved her family.
Having witnessed brutal Japanese occupation and corrupt Kuomintang rule, young Ore joined the covert Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. While sacrificing his one true love, ballet studies, and career advancement, he recruited impressionable youths into the Communist student movement. He guarded the secret from his parents and siblings until, disillusioned with the Party, he emigrated to Canada to begin the process of rebuilding his life.
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