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The Sand Pebbles

Gunboat USS San Pablo is assigned to monitor a tributary of China's most exploited river in 1926. Engineer Jake Holman joins the crew. On board the ship, he quickly clashed with the "rice-bowl" system that operates it and the symbiotic relationship that exists between Chinese and non-Chinese people on the river. Anger for the gunboat's presence grows to a climax when the boat crashes through a river boom to rescue missionaries at China Light Mission, which is located upriver.

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