Born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in 1931 in the waning days of Imperialist China, Gloria Chou was the youngest of three daughters in an educated middle-class Protestant family. Her early childhood was spent under the Japanese Occupation of her home province of Shandong. Educated both at home and in Catholic schools, Gloria became enamored of the Catholic Church with its beauty and rituals and the example of a life of prayer and contemplation. In 1948...