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"Turncoats" and "Diabolic Brainwashing" are among the headlines that met the 21 young American GIs who refused repatriation when the armistice was signed to end the Korean War (1950-53) and chose to go to Red China. Hollywood films such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962) didn't help ease the frenzy over the perceived Communist diabolism either. For a long time no one knows what life behind the "Bamboo Curtain" was really like for those "21 Turncoats" who had turned their backs on their motherland. Twin-Sun River tells the story of Pfc Simon Mackenzie who chooses to disappear in the heartland of China to chase his "Walden" or "Peach Orchard Outside the World" dream soon after the armistice was effected. There, in a small mountain village, Simon's decision is tested over and again as he struggles to survive a big flood, the Great Leap Forward, the Famine, and finally, the Cultural Revolution and as he becomes enmeshed in the life of a Chinese family and their beautiful "widowed" daughter-in-law. Parallel to Simon's journey is that of Jie Ding, a humanities professor who traverses the changing landscape of China during the summer of 2001 to accomplish an impossible mission while trying to exorcise his own demons: his marital problems and the haunting memories of the Cultural Revolution. The two journeys "crisscross" and finally converge on the Twin-Sun River glimmering under the early fall sky.

"Soul Wind" is a new collection of poems by Yu Fu, penname of Shouxing Qi. They range from classic poems to modern free verse, all in refreshing, bold, and sometimes pungent voices. Shouxing Qi is one the few in China today who still persist and indulge in the "sweetness and light" of poetry. Many of the poems in this new collection, written as recently as since 2013, have appeared in poetry journals and other literary forums, have been enthusiastically received-quite a few having won accolades.

A collection of nearly two hundred modern free verse poems by Yu Fu ("Foolish Man"), a poet who is equally well versed in classic poetic forms--all in refreshing, bold, and sometimes pungent voices singing of bitter sweet love, loss, sorrow, frustration, dreams lost or half realized.