Drifting Clouds

Liu Wei-ping was born in 1915, just a decade after the abolition of the Confucian-based civil service examination. As a young man, he was recruited into the Foreign Office and sent to Australia in early 1945, where he remained to pursue a life of scholarly and creative activities. His story will resonate for many Chinese who, with war and the establishment of a new political order, found themselves settling permanently in other countries of the world.