Cold Spring Morning Sun

In the late 1940s two young idealistic American scientists made the extraordinary decision to settle down and work in a remote district of China They were drawn by the promise as they saw it of profound social revolution Joan Hinton was a physicist one of the few women to have worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb Sid Engst was from Cornell University in up state New York and a specialist in agriculture This is a fascinating account of the lives these two Americans built for themselves in the very midst of Chinas most troubled times