Pakwan's life is one of passion and adventure, beginning in communist China during the Cultural Revolution. After a dramatic escape to British Hong Kong, he meets Senseng and the personal conflicts of their long-distance love story begin. The journey continues to the U.S., where as a broke, nerdy, foreign student, Pakwan struggles to adapt his Confucian upbringing to make sense of the hippie-era, "far-out" California college scene. This tale not only presents a fresh and often comedic perspective on a truly transformative period of one young man's life and of two countries but also offers...