Red Sorghum: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified onl

Empire of the Sun: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into pri

The Flowers of War: A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, h

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness: All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent the

Waiting for the Barbarians: At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looki

From Here to Eternity: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in