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Ma Chan-shan and son entangled in Sino Japanese intrigue
In Tientsin a tale of passion and political peril unfolds as General Ma Chan-shan battles Japanese intrigue while his son Ma Kuei is seized and imprisoned after a doomed romance with Miss Hu Man-li at the Paris Cabaret in the Japanese Concession. The affair deepens Ma’s bid against Tokyo and exposes a web of bribery, captivity, and retaliation amid Manchuria’s volatile theater.
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Mae West
China
Japan
Ma Chan-shan
Nanni River
Manchurian
Hu Man-li
Paris
Tientsin
Ma K’vei
Ma K'uei
Man-li
Marshal Ma
K'uei
North China Star of
Ma Kuei
Ma K’uei
Chao Chuan
MA Chan Shan
Tsitsihar
General Ma
Northland
Heilungkiang
Lytton Commission
Manchuria
Hailan
Soviet
Russia
Shanghai
Legation
Manchoukuoan
Kuei
K’uei
Asahi Road
Manli