Three years, a period during which the Nationalist Party dynasty in China was replaced by a Communist Party dynasty and a lovely historic city changed its name from Peip'ing to Beijing, serve as the backdrop to a personal memoir of two young people who happened to be witness to this historic transition. This is a story of how they came to be in China, how they met, fell in love, married, changed one career and re-oriented another, started a family, and coped with the events taking place around them during this turbulent period. Sometimes naive, sometimes self-centered, sometimes happy and sometimes worried, the events in the lives of this couple were not untypical of other young Americans who ventured abroad for the first time mid-way through the Twentieth Century.