Word: hsun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reading the AP wire is a constant lesson in human error. Whether Hsun Tze was right or not about the essential evil of human nature, certain individuals indisputably are innately evil. Like most fundamental optimists, however, I failed to realize just how many of these twisted people are out there...
...story begins in 1960, during a great famine. When a mysterious man saves Hsun-ching after he falls down a waterfall, Hsun-ching comes under the guidance of a Buddhist monk...
...monk teaches Hsun-ching many things, including written Chinese, English and the mysterious adventures of the Monkey King. He also passes on to Hsun-ching the quest to find a lost Buddhist scroll--the Laughing Sutra--which an American had stolen years earlier...
...when the Cultural Revolution gripped China, a group of "Chairman Mao's True Soldiers" force Hsun-ching to join the Maoist movement and work in a commune. Ten years later, Hsun-Ching gains his freedom and returns home. Finding his mentor almost dead, Hsun-Ching embarks for America to complete the quest for the Laughing Sutra...
...escape from China, Hsun-ching must find Colonel Sun, the man who had saved his life at the waterfall. Colonel Sun turns out to be the perfect companion/bodyguard, considering the fact that he is immortal and has never lost a battle since he was born "seven centuries before the birth of Christ...