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reason, hawkish moves by president xi and the chinese communist party is discussed in the book by edward wonga." edward joins us now. the book explores his own family's history, including harrowing tales of edward's father's time fighting in the chinese army. a lot to talk to you about. i'll ask you about the hawkish moves in just a moment. first, can you tell me what you discovered, what you already knew, what you wrote about in terms of your family connection with communist china and your father's story? >> thanks, mika. great to be here. well, when i was growing up in the suburbs of washington, d.c., my father went to work every day at a chinese restaurant. i rarely heard anything about his past from him. like many immigrant fathers he came here with a sense of trying to build for the future and rarely talked about the past. in my 20s when i was in grad school, i was learning a little more about my family past because i got very interested in china at the time and had gone there to study. once i completed my tour in china as the beijing bureau chief for the times, i came back and interview