Yang | Baojiu | Yang Bashu's son. aka: Scabby. |
Yang | Bashu | One of the villagers. |
Norman | Bethune | A Canadian doctor. |
Generalissimo | Chiang | A military leader who served as head of the Republic of China. |
Winston | Churchill | Former British Prime Minister. |
Yang | Deshun | The village scribe. |
Yao | Enmei | Full name of Ah May. |
Lei | Feng | A soldier in the People's Liberation Army. |
Elizabeth Maria | Ferguson | Ian Ferguson's mother. |
Ian Lawrence | Ferguson | American soldier sent to support the Chinese effort. |
Alan | Frasermann | Leah's husband. |
Leah | Frasermann | Ian Ferguson's sister. |
Robert | Frost | An American poet. |
Yan | Fu | A Chinese translator. |
Yang | Fu | A great scholar. |
Yao | Guiyan | Full name of Yao Ah Yan. |
Zhao | Haifa | Liu Zhaohu's captain. |
Adolf | Hitler | The leader of the Nazi Party. |
Yang | Jianguo | Scabby's son. |
Chen | Kaiyi | The minister for the county party organization. |
Vivien | Leigh | A British stage and film actress. |
Dr. | Lewis | A medical officer. |
Yang | Lianzhong | One of the Chinese students. aka: Snot. |
Abraham | Lincoln | 16th President of the United States. |
William E.S. de Royer | Macmillan | An American missionary and a doctor. aka: Pastor Billy. |
Ah | May | Ah Yan's daughter. |
Benito | Mussolini | An Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy. |
Yasuji | Okamura | A general of the Imperial Japanese Army. |
Ah | Quan | Ah Yan's uncle. |
Romain | Rolland | A French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic. |
Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd President of the United States. |
Joseph | Stalin | The dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). |
Yang | Taigong | An old villager known as Grandpa Yang. |
Hideki | Tojo | Japanese prime minister and general. |
Harry | Truman | 33rd president of the United States. |
Walter | Whitman | An American poet, essayist, and journalist. |
Emily | Wilson | Ian Ferguson's girlfriend. |
John | Worthington | A British politician served in Parliament in the early-1930s. |
Isoroku | Yamamoto | A Japanese Marshal Admiral. |
Yao Ah | Yan | Liu Zhaohu's acquaintance since childhood. |
Xiao | Yanqui | Starring actress of the troupe. |
Catherine | Yao | A reporter from a well-known Chinese media outlet. |
Mao | Zedong | A Former Chairman of People's Republic of China. |
Liu | Zhaohu | A Chinese officer in training at the Camp of Sino-American Org. |
Andy | | Ian Ferguson's co-worker at the mechanic shop. |
Beggar | | A kitten. |
Buffalo | | A Chinese servant. |
Daisy | | Ian Ferguson's cousin. |
Ghost | | A well-trained military dog. |
Hawk | | Pastor Billy's old friend. |
Huwa | | Ah Quan's son. |
Jack | | Ian Ferguson's acquaintance. |
Jacob | | Ian Ferguson's brother. |
Jenny | | William E. Macmillan's wife. |
John | | Ian's father's friend. |
Langwa | | A carpenter. Huwa's brother. |
Leon | | Ian Ferguson's high school classmate. |
Louise | | Ian Ferguson's aunt. |
Miles | | The commander of China Naval Group. |
Millie | | A white terrier adopted by a nearby church. |
Sanmei | | Stella's mother. |
She | | Baojiu's mother. |
Smithson | | An instructor. |
Stella | | Pastor Billy's acquaintance. |
Tianlin | | One of the villagers. |
Wende | | Ian Ferguson's acquaintance. |