Chen, Hui Xian, now eighty years young, recounts with astonishing clarity stories from her remarkable life. Born to parents who were both physicians, Chen was one of eleven surviving siblings. It was a privileged beginning, but shortly, the family found itself fleeing from the invasion and subsequent war with Japan. After the war, Chen being fluent in English became, at age twenty-three, a translator for Premier Zhou, En Lai until the government quietly...