"Many years ago, I lived in old Shanghai like all foreigners stationed there" "I enjoyed some very special privileges" "We almost forgot about the tough times back home... the Depression never touched us in Shanghai-the Paris of the Orient" "It's terrible time to be Chinese-but nothing seemed to bother us." "We were there for a good time" "That's my best friend Robert?" "Payne, he is an American" "Ah, Haoming" "Good evening, Clarke" "A beer for my friend" "That's my friend" "Payne, Payne, there is someone like to meet you" "I'm sorry, I've got to take him away for a while" "Doctor Payne, I'd like you to meet Mr. Haoming" "I suppose you could say we are colleagues" "Doctor Robert?" "Payne is my American friend" "When he is not dancing, he is a surgeon" "I am delighted to meet you, Dr. Payne" "Actually, you and I are in a similar business so let's have a toast for similar business" "Similar business?" "Yes." "If something bad is growing inside one of your patients" "You cut it out, make him better again" "I operate on society." "Society is my patient and if necessary" "I too use a knife." "So we are both doctors" "The difference is you use a knife to cure and I use it to kill" "Zhao Shui?" "Is this the Plum Blossom but that apartment is empty." "Nobody lives there" "Someone told me there's a doctor living here?" "The doctor isn't there, he is here" "You?" "I'm Robert?" "Payne, I'm an American doctor" "My husband is ill, it's serious" "I've come to ask for your help" "I'm sorry" "It's not that I don't want to help..." "It's just..." "It's very late" "Besides whoever gave you my address should have known it's the hospital policy" "we never pay house visits and not just for a..." "A China man?" "I recall your Hippocratic Oath" ""I shall carry out this work in a pure and sacred spirit" "So long as its for the good of the sick" "I shall go into the house of any man"" "Untie him." "Take off his shirt" "Allow me." "Oh, my God" "Well he has gun shot wounds from at least five different occasions" "There's another wounds caused by a hand grenade exploding at close range" "I suspect some of those fragments are still inside him" "Caused a sort of epilepsy" "He's living with excruciate pain" "I left my business card" "I want you to come to the hospital tomorrow for some pain killers" "I..." "OK" "What's your name?" "Qiuqiu" "Well, my guess is as good as my diagnoses this man is not your husband" "Hi" "I'm sorry, Dr. Payne" "This prescription needs the chairman's signature" "Oh, I will have the Chairman to sign it tomorrow" "Come on, don't worry" "I will have it signed for you first thing in the morning" "Communist" "I'm an American, I'm a doctor" "I'm an American, I'm a doctor" "You made a mistake, I'm not a Communist!" "I'm an American, I'm a doctor." "Please!" "You made a mistake" "Haoming, Haoming, Haoming!" "It's Robert?" "Payne" "Haoming, please help me!" "You have to understand." "I normally never do this" "But the girl said her husband was sick" "She gave me a lot of money." "So I came here with her" "Her husband was very ill So I gave him a injection" "What does this man look like?" "He was thin, average Chinese" "How old was he?" "About 40" "What about the woman?" "She was much younger than the man, just an ordinary girl" "Of course... she was very beautiful" "Are you sure they're the Communists you are looking for?" "Why are you doing this?" "You said you are looking for two communists and these people have nothing to do with them" "I don't understand, these old women, these children do you think they are communists?" "Haoming!" "I had an idealistic youth we were very naive and believed Russia's revolution was soon to be our victory too" "It's very romantic to follow your ideals but have you ever thought of the price you'll have to pay?" "Qiuqiu, Qiuqiu" "Qiuqiu, Qiuqiu, No..." "From that day, my daughter thought I was a monster" "She wouldn't see me" "Finally, my wife sent her away without telling me" "What about your wife?" "She committed suicide" "And you never look for your daughter?" "Mr. Payne, is my story interesting?" "Don't explain it to me anymore" "The only thing I know is that you've been arrested and that's a fact" "I will not allow these kind of things to happen in my hospital" "The political situation in Shanghai is very complicated" "You may not understand but I do!" "From now, you will be temporarily replaced by Doctor Zhang" "What am I going to do?" "You're only to do your rounds in the wards" "We'll talk about your job after things cool down" "You have to understand that it's good for the hospital and it would be better for you this way" "Now Dr. Zhang is moving into your office go and clean it out" "Doctor Payne, has the chairman signed the prescription yet?" "Please, some other time, OK?" "Doctor, it wasn't easy for me to get this job you know" "Doctor Payne, I'm sorry" "But I have no choice, it's the Chairman's order" "OK, that's OK" "Doctor Payne, sorry" "I missed you yesterday I had a little something to toke care of" "Can I get that prescription?" "Doctor Payne, are you OK?" "I don't know you, where did you come from?" "Because where I came from" "You are not supposed to end up with the gun to your head when you try to help someone..." "Please listen to me..." "I almost lost everything because of you" "And that may not mean anything to you or your husband" "But this is my life" "But I..." "But I don't want you right here now." "Why are you still standing there?" "I'm asking you to get out of my office" "I don't want to be used by you anymore, get out!" "So we are the people they want to arrest" "We have known Chang Kai Shek for more than ten years" "And knew him really well." "Let me tell you" "He is deaf, and very serious" "If you want him to hear something you have to fight a gun" "Let me tell you, there's a mass of soldiers" "They have beliefs, they have ideas, and an ideology" "They are the Red Army" "How are you, comrade!" "Hi, girl, where are you going?" "I think, I am..." "Our leader has said we don't recruit girls this time" "Just wait for next time" "I'm coming here to look for someone" "My, my teacher" "Teacher?" "The one who gave the speech today" "We all want to join the Red Army." "We all want to go" "Let me go" "You go, and you all wait here" "Did I say before, I didn't want you to see me like this" "I'm sorry, but I'm not coming here just to look." "I'm coming here to join join the REDARMY" "Get out" "Here, it's for you" "Read" "What?" "Please read, "the sun rises", that poem" "Oh, the sun rises, an eagle flies toward heaven" "Louder!" "Oh, the sun rises, an eagle flies toward heaven" "Suddenly stops, as if frozen in the blue sky" "No one knows why it flies, what it needs..." "I didn't head to north and join the student army to fight the Japanese like I wanted" "I accepted a secret task, to act as Jin's wife" "The party leaders decided we would stay in Shanghai and cure Jin's sickness" "But I didn't understand why they picked me" "I felt lucky, because I had finally become one of his soldiers" "Are you afraid?" "How was he?" "He's much better now." "He wants to meet you" "Robert Payne" "So you're Doctor Payne Please forgive me but I can't reveal my real name" "You can call me Jin" "If I had this on the Long March it would have been a real luxury" "Last year at this time we had fought our way to Guizhou" "But no one had a map showing the whole country" "Finally, we found one in a church but all the town's names were in Italian" "So, we had to take the Italian missionary with us" "His job was to decipher and translate the map" "In return we had to provide him with his own stretcher" "Amazing, it's as if all of China under your feet" "That day will come but it won't be me that's standing on top It'll be the Chinese people" "You're a romantic" "It's not about romance this is about conviction" "Do you really believe you're going to win?" "Definitely." "Your own experience should be enough proof of that" "My experience?" "You saw how they arrested all those people when they were only looking for the two of us" "What do you think they're afraid of?" "The people are waking up" "Pardon me, Jin" "But I heard the million-strong army of Chang Kai Shek wiped out the Red Army" "Here's one of them standing in front of you right now" "That's why I came here to show everyone that the Red Army has not been exterminated" "We're still fighting for our ideals" "Is everything ready?" "Yes." "Let me do this" "Is that why you risked your life coming to Shanghai?" "Didn't you call me a romantic?" "There is a reason why I asked you here today" "We really want the outside world to know more about what's going on in China especially Westerners" "What if you were to put your own personal experiences in an article" "Now that would make an interesting story" "How did you know I wrote articles?" "The China Review has a lot of readers in Shanghai" "That's how Qiuqiu knew about you" "You look completely different from when you were sick" "You mean I look terrible before?" "Well, Our first meeting was under rather unusual circumstances" "Well, I'm a doctor I can't evaluate someone from an aesthetic point of view" "But I still think you should come to the hospital for a check up" "I can arrange that... and don't be concerned" "I'm a much better doctor than I'm a writer" "I'll think about it" "You see my condition is not such a big deal" "There are old wounds from years ago." "I'm fine" "Can I ask you a personal question?" "Yes, of course" "Are you Qiuqiu's husband?" "What?" "Husband?" "You don't really understand us" "We're... we're not couple" "It's our cover." "We're comrades We pretend to be a couple for our enemies" "My wife was murdered five years ago" "I'm sorry" "Well, thank you very much for coming to see me" "We must leave now" "Could you leave a half hour later?" "Jin, come to the hospital for a check up" "I'll let you know." "Don't forget to lock the door when you leave" "My grandfather was in the Majesty's Navy... sailed here in the last century" "The one thing that he brought back with him was a small embroider shoe" "I still remember its scent... said it belonged to a beautiful woman" "Who was as delicate and dainty as the shoe was beautiful..." "He fell in love with her you see" "But a sailor can't bring back a living person" "So he was forced to kill her..." "Brought back the shoe as a remembrance" "Before I came over here he took me aside and said" "Never get involved emotionally with oriental women" "Because there's only two ways to deal with them" "Do you know what they are?" "Money or a knife" "How do you know?" "It's the fifth time you've told me your grandfather's story" "Oh, Christ..." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Sorry" "Hey buddy, you broke my glass" "Me?" "You should talk to her" "You should apologize" "Don't move..." "Nobody move... stop it" "It's not my fault That's an order..." "Clarke, Clarke, don't it's not her fault" "This is the concession" "We have our rules" "If you hadn't come along I was going to beat him black and blue and red" "If the chair hadn't gotten in the way" "Yes, it was a very big chair" "You're drunk." "Go home" "I'm home." "You're drunk" "No, you're drunk" "You're drunk" "Well, we'll settle this tomorrow." "Good night" "You're drunk" "very funny." "Payne..." "Payne, I'm coming" "Payne..." "I'm coming" "Oh, good lord." "Are you all right?" "Come on Payne" "Get up!" "Oh, dear" "This is unfair, Payne" "Come on, Payne" "Ah, you're hereto see him, are you?" "Hello, allow me to introduce myself I'm Colonel Clarke." "I'm his best friend" "Really?" "Well, I'll leave him in your more than capable hands" "Good night" "Good night" "Good night, you lucky dog" "If I didn't know better I'd think you're a professional nurse" "Where did you learn this?" "In the missionary school, where I grew up" "Is that where you leaned English?" "Yes." "Him, too?" "Who?" "Your husband" "Jin studied abroad He was a teacher before joining the communists" "Are you in love with him?" "I mean real love?" "Why are you asking me that?" "Because I feel like I am going through this unusual love experience" "How can I explain... it's like a dream" "Please forgive me for asking but I need to know" "Is there any place for me in this story?" "Yes, there is a place" "Where?" "Where is my place?" "Please tell me" "As the doctor" "Are you turning me away?" "Would you like to dance?" "Do you want to hear my story?" "Jin..." "Jin." "What's wrong?" "What is happening to you?" "Wake up, come on!" "The sun rises An eagle flies up towards heaven" "And suddenly stops almost as if it's frozen in the blue sky" "No one knows why the eagle flies what he needs..." "An-xia!" "An-xia!" "Run!" "Run!" "Jin, what's wrong?" "What's happening to you?" "An-xia, run!" "Quick... run here." "Shhhhh!" "Where have you been?" "I'm here" "Where's your scarf?" "What?" "The red scarf." "You lost it, right?" "No, no" "Bring it to me" "An-xia, you see." "It's here" "I knew you would not leave me" "We are never going to separate." "An-xia" "He thought of me as his wife" "That's why I've been looking for you" "Please help me make him healthy again" "So I can finally tell him everything" "I really need you to help us" "Hi, Happy New Year" "Thank you." "Happy New Year" "You're not dancing." "No" "You should be dancing" "Dr. Boulton, Happy New Year" "Dr. Smith, happy New Year" "Happy New Year, Dr. Payne" "Happy New Year" "Mr. Wang, welcome to the hospital and thank you for your donation last year" "I'm so happy that your wife and you family could be here with us this evening" "Everything is ready where is Jin?" "In the car" "I'll go to the X-ray first... you bring him later" "Ok, Dr. Payne" "Please call me Robert" "Oh, Robert." "What are you doing out here?" "Why aren't you inside at the dance" "Oh, such a beautiful woman" "Are you going to introduce her?" "What are you still mad at me?" "Everything will be fine in the new year" "Miss, let me invite you inside for a dance" "Accepting responsibility is the most important quality in a man's character" "I've always said, a man does not mature until be has fallen in love with a woman" "You continue to surprise me" "Here you've found a beautiful woman and she's Chinese" "Love is a very serious thing" "I guarantee it miss you will be happy with him" "Mr. Chairman, would you like to dance?" "I would be delighted to" "Jin tell me, when you have these attacks do you hallucinate?" "Yes, it's like a dream..." "I'm in another world I can't tell if it's heaven or hell" "Strange sometime I want to stay in this dream" "Here's the shrapnel it's lodged in your skull" "This is what's causing the convulsions" "It affects the function of your brain bringing on attacks similar to an epileptic fit" "To be honest Jin It's amazing you're still alive" "Do I still have hope?" "Take out the shrapnel, it's the only way" "Because of it's position the operation is delicate and has certain risks" "You mean I could die?" "No, not likely you'll die but it could damage your brain tissue or you could be paralyzed or..." "Or what?" "Or it'll have permanent brain damage and you could loose your mental capacity" "No, I don't want that" "You can't be negative" "I'm a doctor, this is what I do." "Trust me" "How much time do I have?" "Every time you have an attack you face death" "You must have the operation" "If I can't live with dignity..." "I would rather die" "That's insane" "No, it's not" "There is an old Chinese saying..." "Shi Si Ru Gui-Death is like returning home" "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five four, three, two, one..." "Happy New Year" "Remember that woman you told me about?" "She really is beautiful" "Dr. Payne, can you tell me now who she is?" "I'm not interested in your profession..." "If you want to make an appointment..." "I'll tell who she is, she's my daughter" "The one I lost nine years ago" "That's ridiculous." "You must be mistaken." "You're thinking of someone else" "You don't understand, a father's feeling" "I lost my wife I lost my child, I lost my family" "For nine years I've thought of her every day" "I didn't search for her because my only wish was that she was alive and happy." "When I found this" "I knew my wish had not come true" "If you're sure it's her" "Why didn't you stop her or arrest her" "We all know there's a man behind her" "A very big communist" "There's an old Chinese saying: "Fang chang xian diao da yu"" "Put out a long line catch a big fish" "You're using your daughter as bait" "Do I have a choice?" "Does she have a choice?" "From the moment I fired the gun at my comrades" "From the night my daughter ran away" "We made our choices." "Maybe I have betrayed God" "It's not my fault" "Haoming, Haoming Tell your men to move back..." "Mr. Haoming Clarke has been kidnapped we've Colonel Clarke has been kidnapped" "Find the solution, Ok?" "Tell your men to move off, move them back" "Don't come any closer." "Don't shoot!" "It wouldn't prove anything." "Haoming!" "Haoming, what are you doing?" "Ah... don't shoot!" "For Christ sake, don't shoot!" "This isn't going to prove anything, Haoming" "You see, this is a smart face blue eyes, brown hair..." "Say you love her!" "Say it!" "Say it!" "I love you!" "Louder!" "Say it!" "Say it!" "Say it!" "Haoming, don't shoot, don't be stupid Put out that gun." "That's an order!" "Let him free" "Get out of the way!" "Haoming, get out of the way!" "You dare not shoot" "Let's go, Clarke" "I love you!" "I love you!" "I love you!" "I love you!" "Everyone has their own sad story but I could not." "Two days later" "Clarke was released by the Communists and returned to his office" "Casting about how brave he had been in the days that follow" "I lost my job and friends abandoned me" "I felt totally isolated in this huge, far off city" "Go, go." "Don't stop!" "Clark, I've been looking all over for you" "Let's go for a drink at the club, Just you and I" "I don't have time I'm very busy right now" "I really need to talk to you." "Please, just for a while" "No, I didn't arrest her" "I heard Haoming arrested her near some drug store" "It's not really clear how he caught her" "How is she?" "Didn't you see the newspaper, you know what happened." "She was with Haoming can you believe it I didn't believe at first" "Do you think all this was done only for you?" "Look it's a very moving story about the re-union of a father and daughter" "What do you think the bloody communists are going to do when they see it?" "What are you talking about?" "Jin is finished." "His organization will not trust him ever" "They'll probably get rid of him That's Haoming's plan" "But he can still be a good father to Qiuqiu in bargain" "No he can't..." "She'll never accept Haoming as her father She'll never betray Jin" "But what can she do?" "My God man Haoming himself used to be a communist" "Think about it a tender young girl like that" "In one hand she faces a knife in the other, a rich, tearful father." "Look it's over..." "Go home Robert" "Go home to America... it's time" "Do you still want to see her?" "Can I?" "Haoming is having a party tonight at the Shanghai Hotel He's invited all the elite in the city to celebrate the reunion with the daughter he lost" "nine years ago... social event of the year that's where she'll be" "Were you related to the deceased?" "Yes, I think our relationship was that of a revolutionary and a traitor" "Qiuqiu" "I'm dead." "It's only rent" "After I die you can have everything I own" "Here, take whatever you wan And I guess I have a typewriter" "Some of the empty liquor bottles and a dead plant, would you like that?" "Dr. Payne." "It's not about the rent" "There's someone looking for you" "My wife and I met in Paris" "She studied music I studied literature" "You could say she lead me to join the revolution" "For a long time I followed my convections because I was following her" "After she died I became a true dedicated revolutionary" "Five years ago I was turned in by a traitor in Hankou" "When the enemy came to get me I happened to be out" "My wife was at home alone" "They forced her into a room and laid a trap for my return" "She got free somehow but had only one way to save me..." "To jump out the window" "It was a tall building and she was in the air for a long time..." "It was like something out of the Anthology of Russian Stories" "The sun rises an eagle flies toward heaven" "That's right..." "Remember I told you about my dream." "When I fall sick... it's so awful, it's so beautiful..." "my wife comes home to me" "That night at the safe house outside the city..." "An-xia, An-xia" "Sun..." "Sun... the sun rises" "Sun..." "Sun... the sun rises the sun rises..." "Can you hear me?" "Please listen to me." "The sun rises an eagle flies towards heaven suddenly stops... as if it's frozen in the blue sky..." "An-xia" "Jin, An-xia is here." "Open your eyes and look at me Jin Wake up, please" "I set that fire for my wife, I wanted to bury her in my heart forever" "Now, I want to start over again" "With Qiuqiu?" "It's impossible..." "No one can save her now" "I can save her The enemy wants me not her" "Please go and tell your friend Clarke we can negotiate I think he'll like the idea" "Jin, have you thought about this?" "Do you know the price you'll have to pay?" "It's worth it" "Why is he doing this?" "Because that's who he is" "You shouldn't come here..." "Jin, you shouldn't have done this for me" "Don't... just let me look at you" "It's our child It has a very bad temper like you" "Can you feel it?" "No, it's a girl like you" "Do you love me?" "Jin..." "No..." "Jin..." "Jin..." "No..." "Qiuqiu" "Jin..." "Jin..." "Give our child a good name" "Jin..." "Qiuqiu" "Qiuqiu, we're almost there, hang on!" "Don't move, don't move" "Hang on, Qiuqiu hang on." "Look at me" "Look at me." "The sun rises an eagle flies towards heaven and suddenly stopping... as if frozen in the blue sky... the sun rises, the sun rises..." "37, China launched an all out war against the Japanese invasion" "The child and I roamed around China's inland" "Until the Japanese were defeated and we returned to Shanghai" "In May 1949, the people's Liberation Army took control of Shanghai" "Throughout it all, we lived together as father and daughter" "I had named her pearl" "Clarke, did you see pearl?" "No." "Pearl!" "In this sea of red and these happy, smiling faces" "I feel sad and happy for Qiuqiu and Jin This victory belongs to them" "Suddenly, I understand, a romance that's entwined with history will never die" "Jin and Qiuqiu committed great acts of loyalty For each other and" "for their people." "Their love deserves to be part of history" "Payne, let's go." "Come on Payne, Don't get to be stupid" "I can't help you anymore You're on your own you know Bloody hell" "Are you Mr. Payne?" "Yes." "We have been waiting for you, With the help of the people's government" "We've checked the record and found the remains of Qiuqiu" "In accordance with your wishes we have put their ashes together" "Is there anything else you or the child need?" "Nothing, I just brought her to see them again." "Xiexie" "Why don't you go and see your mum and dad?" "Can I touch them?" "Daddy" "What's it, sweetie?" "I took something" "Oh, you did?" "What?" "You keep this" "Why did they put them together?" "It's a Chinese custom, they're a couple, they should stay together" "It doesn't matter whether they are alive or dead they shouldn't be separated"