Erh resisted internally over his duty of assassinating a sleeping man, Malraux unites grainy action with an amplification of the existential belief that social change is authority by the actions of individuals. Man's Fate is the account of a group of Europeans in Shanghai, China on the eve of the Communist Revolution in 1923. They built up a close bond in a foreign land going through political chaos and immense changes.
             Man's Fate, a story of a vital incident in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foretells the current world and brings to life the deep meaning of the revolutionary desire for the individuals involved. As a story of scheme and conspirators, of men caught in the frantic clash of beliefs, disloyalty, convenience, and free will.
             "André Malraux, who was a leftist in his youth, resisted the Nazis during WWII, and became minister of culture under DeGaulle, was a man that defied easy definitions". (Braun 51) His novel Man's Fate resists easy classification and is a political thriller based on true events: a failed Communist uprising in China at the time of the uneasy alliance of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces and the Communists. For reasons of grand strategy, the decision-makers in Moscow opt for sacrificing their people to Chiang, betraying the very cadres who will die for the cause Moscow pushes. This is the main, but not the only, irony in the novel.
             There is an assassin who kills because that is the only moment when he truly feels alive (Ch'en). There is a man of mixed European and Japanese ancestry (Kyoshi) who fights for Communism because he believes it is the only answer to the desperate situation of the Chinese workers a
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