The Jade Curtain in the Flames of War

In 1931 Shanghai, Fu Yunshen, heir to the century-old silk shop Jinyun Xuan, meets Su Qingtang, a Christian schoolgirl, in front of a monument commemorating the May Thirtieth Massacre. When the gilded pocket watch of a rich young man collides with the mimeographed leaflet of a progressive student, the gears of fate begin to turn, winding together duty to country and tender feelings between young lovers. The guns of the September 18 Incident tear through the glittering facade of the foreign concessions. Thirty thousand bolts of silk belonging to the Fu family are seized by the Japanese army from their Hongkou warehouse, and his second younger brother is killed on Nanjing Road. The hands that once measured cloth now grip Hanyang rifles; the tender moments by Suzhou Creek give way to the smoke of the Sihang Warehouse. When the blood of the Eight Hundred Heroes stains the magnolias of the foreign concessions, can the love poem Qingtang writes on a Red Cross bandage make it through the flames of Zhabei and reach Yunshen in his bloodstained uniform...