The House of Sixty Fathers | Setting
The story takes place in China during World War II as Japan is invading. Tien Pao's home is a sampan, a flat-bottomed houseboat, in which he and his family escape on the river when the Japanese overtake his village, The-Corner-of-the- Mountains-Where-the-Rivers-Meet. The family goes to Hengyang, where the mother and father can find work at an American airbase while living in their sampan.
During Tien Pao's journey from enemy-occupied territory back to Hengyang, he spends a great deal of time in the Chinese countryside, guiding himself through the mountains by following the...
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