Japan's invasion of China in 1937 and confiscation of Chang's family's compound in 1939 is recalled. In 1941, she and a sister undertook a thousand-mile journey by foot to "free China." Here, she and chef Laurence Jossel make "beggar's chicken" (a stuffed chicken wrapped in lotus leaves and clay, and baked for at least two hours; a mallet is needed to crack the shell).