The Chinese Box Author:Christopher New The fingers of pianists are broken for playing bourgeois music, teachers are humiliated and worse-the Cultural Revolution is in full fury on the mainland. Hong Kong is rife with rumors and riots. Nonetheless, Dimitri Johnston feels an affinity for China that is not shared by his wife. (She is not so taken with him either.) When he meets a y... more »oung Chinese dancer, they become infatuated.« less