Far East - Thursday, May 24 at 8 p.m. In 1954, a young Naval officer on a tour of duty near Tokyo falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. Heir to a Milwaukee beer fortune, he becomes trapped between his family's values, which he is trying to escape, and this forbidden relationship.
Tensions mount in a collision of East with West, past with present, duty with passion.
Chinese Americans - Thursday, May 31 at 9 p.m. This program visits generations of Chinese families who came to the United States from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and forged an American dynasty.