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There are not one but several threads to follow in the fascinating story of Tsien Hsue-shen, the brilliant Chinese scientist who is the subject of this book. There is a story of lineages, of a scion of a family of mandarins and an uncle once removed of Roger Tsien, the 2008 Nobel prize Laureate and his brother Richard, a highly distinguished neuroscientist, both current US citizens. Yet another story is that of China and its convulsive century of revolution and change. Tsien Hsue-shen was born in 1911, the year of the Chinese revolution, and his life was shaped by the events that unfolded from that momentous occasion. Like many in the Chinese diaspora, he crossed continents in search of opportunity, finding scholarship and distinction in the United States as a proverbial rocket scientist. However, the currents of history were soon to entrap him in their vortices. At a time of recrimination in the US post the triumph of the communist Chinese in 1949, he was hounded by a McCarthyite witch hunt as a potential spy and sent back to China. Once back, he staunchly identified with his resurgent country and its ambitions and spearheaded its nascent missile program. Then there is the story of his host country itself, the United States, its rise to world hegemony and its bitter wars in Asia to assert and sustain that hegemony. At home this was an era of racial discrimination, of Asians, African Americans and Latinos, anyone other than whites, treated as second class citizens. The echos of that era are not all gone, as witnessed by the example of Wen Ho Lee, the Chinese American Los Almos nuclear scientist accused of espionage for China in the late 1990s. Finally, there is the story of the author herself, with the tale of Tsien Hsue-shen an implicit backdrop for her own search for identity as a second generation Chinese American. That search reverberated in her subsequent book, the Rape of Nanking, but was very palpable in this one as well. A very rich book, deeply provocative, illustrative of the twists of fate of individuals tossed around by cataclysmic forces much beyond their control.
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