Recently hired to teach in China, Gilbert was delighted by the school's rural setting and its charming people, especially the 4th-grade teacher Victoria. Was she interested in him, he wondered? She asked him to please critique a story she wrote, and she couldn't stop smiling at him. The story, however, gave a terrifying account of the Cultural Revolution and of Mr. Huang's slaughter of 4 party officials. Mr. Huang happened to be Victoria's father,...