The False Dragon

In 1944, twelve-year-old Song Li watches Japanese soldiers tear through his village along the Xiang River -- the first of many losses that will follow him through eight decades of upheaval.

The False Dragon follows three generations of one Chinese family as they survive war, revolution, and the relentless machinery of the Chinese Communist Party. From the chaos of the Japanese invasion and the desperate flight to Taiwan, through Mao's Great Famine and the brutal fever of the Cultural Revolut...