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18-year-old Moshe Levy will be sent to the wilds of Western Canada, to work on his pioneering uncle’s ranch. This is not the Old West of John Wayne, Gary Cooper or Randolph Scott. The Canadian West of the turn of the century was peopled by Yiddish-speaking cowboys who learned Blackfoot, and Blackfoot Indians who learned Yiddish. By Chinese coolies and Scots, Poles and Eastern European immigrants of every description. Moshe will have little patience mucking out horse stalls, but he will revel in being taught to shoot by a Yiddish-speaking Blackfoot Indian horse whisperer with the unlikely name of Kipling. He will leave the ranch in Pincher Creek, Alberta and migrate to Edmonton, to become a professional bare-knuckle brawler, pickpocket and thief. It is there that he will befriend a Chinese restaurant owner, who is being beaten and robbed by a group of white rednecks, who Moshe, now calling himself Morris, will beat half to death with all the rage he felt for those who slaughtered his family back in the Old Country.

Soong Ching-ling(27 January 1893 – 29 May 1981) was a Chinese political figure. As the third wife of Sun Yat-sen, one of the leaders of the 1911 revolution that established the Republic of China, she was often referred to as Madame Sun Yat-sen. She was a member of the Soong family and, together with her siblings, played a prominent role in China's politics prior to 1949.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, she held several prominent positions in the new government, including Vice President of China (1949–1954; 1959–1975) and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1954–1959; 1975–1981), travelled abroad during the early 1950s, representing her country at a number of international events. During the Cultural Revolution, however, she was heavily criticized.[1] Following the purge of President Liu Shaoqi in 1968, she and Dong Biwu as Vice Presidents became de facto Heads of State of China until 1972,[2] when Dong was appointed Acting President. Soong survived the Cultural Revolution, but appeared less frequently after 1976. As the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1976 to 1978, Soong was the Head of State. During her final illness in May 1981, she was given the special title of "Honorary President of the People's Republic of China".

Soong Mei-ling or Soong May-ling(Chinese: 宋美齡; pinyin: Sòng Měilíng; March 5, 1898[2] – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairwoman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and in 1943 conducted an eight-month speaking tour of the United States of America to gain support. She was also the youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, and one of only two first ladies during World War II (along with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 1900–2002) who lived into the 21st century. Her life traversed three centuries.[3]