Wednesday 18th October, 2017 @ 20h55 on MBC 2
Director: Jianya Zhang
Cast: Kun Chen, Yuqi Zhang, Georg Anton
Synopsis: China, 1947. On a visit to Shanghai, Qian Xuesen (Chen Kun), who has been working in the US for the past 12 years as a research professor at Califoria Institute of Technology, as well as an advisor to the US Air Force on its jet propulsion programme, proposes to and marries his childhood sweetheart, opera singer Jiang Ying (Kitty Zhang). The following year, their son Qian Yonggang is born in Boston, and they subsequently settle down in Pasadena, with Qian becoming director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Center. Soon afterwards, however, under the Red Scare, Qian is accused of being a Communist spy, has his security clearance revoked, and is arrested and imprisoned. In 1950 he is found not guilty, but he has already decided to leave the US and return to China. However, the US military is unwilling to let him go because of his knowledge. In early 1951 he is put under house arrest, and is only allowed to leave the US in 1955, as a swap for 11 American POWs captured by China during the Korean War. In China he is put in charge of the country's missile programme which, after several setbacks including the Soviet Union withdrawing its advisors, eventually climaxes in the test of China's first nuclear missile in October 1966.
[Source: IMDb]