August 1934, China. A young graduate from Shanghai Jiaotong University won a prestigious scholarship and departed for the United States to pursue a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at MIT. A year later, his cousin — who shared the same grandfather, alma mater, and scholarship — followed him to the same school for the same degree. By 1937, shortly after their graduation, the Second Sino-Japanese War had erupted.
The two cousins with mirror-image lives now faced an identical ch
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