Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but...
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and runnin...
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in...
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes...
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin ...
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...
An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred...
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escap...
A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the ...
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell ...
Girls at a Beijing High School in 1952 have dreams for China.
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on bot...