Chung Kuo is the epic story of this "War of Two Directions" - a grand conflict between the Western idea of progress and the Eastern belief in stability. In its pages we follow the fortunes of four young men from all walks of Chung Kuo society - from the son of a T'ang to a slave born in the rubble beneath the city's foundations - and it is their strengths, dreams, passions, and struggles that m…