Original sentence: Harold Stephens was born in Pennsylvania and raised on a farm.When Mao Tse-tung overran China Stephens was captured but managed to flee from Tsingtao aboard a junk sailing down the coast.When the war ended, he went to China as a China Marine, conned his way into attending a Chinese language school in Peking, and became an interpreter
Edited sentence: Harold Stephens was born in Bridgeville Pennsylvania and raised on a farm.When Mao Tse-tung overran China, Stephens was held by the communists but managed to flee from Tsingtao aboard a junk sailing down the coast.When the war ended, he went to China as a China Marine, landed in Tsingtao and later attended a Chinese language school in Peking, subsequently becoming an interpreter