George Hogg is a young British journalist from England. In 1938, during the early days of Japanese occupation of China, he sneaks into Nanjing, China by pretending to be Red Cross aid worker. Hogg is capture by the Japanese while photographing them committing atrocities and is about to be executed when Chen Hansheng (陳漢生), a Chinese communist resistance fighter, saves him.
Overwhelmed by shock, he inadvertently reveals their presence. A fierfight ensues, and Hogg is wounded. While convalescing, he is sent to an orphanage with 60 boys in Huangshi(黃石) to help Lee Pearson, the American nurse who runs it.
A Lee's insistence, Hogg helped her to convince the boys that the treatment of lice by flea powder does not hurt. Lee's demonstration of the treatment on a naked Hogg in the middle of the courtyard manages to convince the boys and they all promptly accept treatment. Lee leaves for two months, and Hogg reluctantly stays behind so as not to leave the boys abandoned. Hogg gains the boy's respect by reparing the lighting, being their teacher, and getting food for them.
Fleeing from the nationalists (國民黨) who want to conscript the boys into their army to fight the Japanese, they make a three-month journey across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan(六盤山) mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert(戈壁沙漠), the first 900 km on foot.
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To their relief, for the last part of the journey they are supplied with four trucks. At the destination they are offered with a building that they turn into a new orphanage. In 1945 Hogg died of tetanus. This was foreshadowed by Lee, when she had described the horrors of the disease to him earlier.
During the severe war against Japanese, there were many foreigners chose to stay with these refugees. However, most of them were forgotten by the public. But I think these brave people would not care that how many people will remember them, because their purpose is to save the life and help the life of these people on the land.
George Hogg is a young British journalist from England. In 1938, during the early days of Japanese occupation of China, he sneaks into Nanjing, China by pretending to be Red Cross aid worker. Hogg is capture by the Japanese while photographing them committing atrocities and is about to be executed when Chen Hansheng (陳漢生), a Chinese communist resistance fighter, saves him. 
Overwhelmed by shock, he inadvertently reveals their presence. A fierfight ensues, and Hogg is wounded. While convalescing, he is sent to an orphanage with 60 boys in Huangshi(黃石) to help Lee Pearson, the American nurse who runs it.
A Lee's insistence, Hogg helped her to convince the boys that the treatment of lice by flea powder does not hurt. Lee's demonstration of the treatment on a naked Hogg in the middle of the courtyard manages to convince the boys and they all promptly accept treatment. Lee leaves for two months, and Hogg reluctantly stays behind so as not to leave the boys abandoned. Hogg gains the boy's respect by reparing the lighting, being their teacher, and getting food for them.
Fleeing from the nationalists (國民黨) who want to conscript the boys into their army to fight the Japanese, they make a three-month journey across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan(六盤山) mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert(戈壁沙漠), the first 900 km on foot.
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To their relief, for the last part of the journey they are supplied with four trucks. At the destination they are offered with a building that they turn into a new orphanage. In 1945 Hogg died of tetanus. This was foreshadowed by Lee, when she had described the horrors of the disease to him earlier.
During the severe war against Japanese, there were many foreigners chose to stay with these refugees. However, most of them were forgotten by the public. But I think these brave people would not care that how many people will remember them, because their purpose is to save the life and help the life of these people on the land.
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