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Song of the Azalea: Memoir of a Chinese Son

A powerful wartime memoir recounts the life of Kenneth Ore, a former Hong Kong underground recruiter for the Chinese Communist Party.

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Some articles were originally written in chinese. Translation into english postings could not have been done without help from Altavista's Babel Fish Translator, friends, and my own little chinese-english dictionary. Such entries will be marked with [Translated from Chinese.] Minimal editing was done.

Due to threats of imprisonment and torture in China, depending on the context, some names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty.