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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.

Song Jiaoren (Chinese: 宋教仁; pinyin: Sòng Jiàorén; Wade–Giles: Sung Chiao-jen, ; Given name at birth: Liàn 鍊; Courtesy name: Dùnchū 鈍初) (5 April 1882 – 22 March 1913) was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). He was assassinated in 1913 after leading his Kuomintang party to victory in China's first democratic elections. Evidence strongly implied that China's provisional president, Yuan Shikai, was responsible for his assassination.

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]

The Tongmenghui (or T'ung-meng Hui, variously translated Chinese United League, United League, Chinese Revolutionary Alliance, Chinese Alliance, United Allegiance Society, 中國同盟會) was a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 August 1905.[1][2] It was formed from the merger of many Chinese revolutionary groups in the late Qing dynasty.