Empire of the Sun

Part I 1 The Eve of Pearl Harbor 11 2 Beggars and Acrobats 21 3 The Abandoned Aerodrome 29 4 The Attack on the Petrel 39 5 Escape from the Hospital 50 6 The Youth with the Knife 56 7 The Drained Swimming-Pool 64 8 Picnic Time 74 9 An End to Kindness 82 10 The Stranded Freighter 87 11 Frank and Basie 94 12 Dance Music 101 13 The Open-Air Cinema 108 14 American Aircraft 115 15 On their Way to the Camps 121 16 The Water Ration 126 17 A Landscape of Airfields 137 18 Vagrants 147 19 The Runway 156 Part II 20 Lunghua Camp 163 21 The Cubicle 171 22 The University of Life 177 23 The Air Raid 186 24 The Hospital 195 25 The Cemetery Garden 203 26 The Lunghua Sophomores 213 27 The Execution 222 28 An Escape 230 29 The March to Nantao 241 30 The Olympic Stadium 252 31 The Empire of the Sun 261 Part III 32 The Eurasian 271 33 The Kamikaze Pilot 277 34 The Refrigerator in the Sky 282 35 Lieutenant Price 289 36 The Flies 300 37 A Reserved Room 305 38 The Road to Shanghai 311 39 The Bandits 318 40 The Fallen Airmen 330 41 Rescue Mission 337 Part IV 42 The Terrible City 345