Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao

Remembering Shanghai (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year

True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural Revolution.

A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the family forever.

When Mao comes to power, eighteen-year-old Isabel journeys to Hong Kong, not realizing that she will make it her home-and that she will never see her father again. She returns to Shanghai fifty years later with her daughter, Claire, to confront their family's past-one they discover is filled with love and betrayal, kidnappers and concubines, glittering palaces and underworld crime bosses.

Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss and redemption against an epic backdrop.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Girl Friday Books
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781954854062
• Artikelnr.: 61250147

Autorenporträt

Isabel Sun Chao was one of the last of her generation to experience the legendary Old Shanghai of the 1930s. She left China on a spring holiday in 1950, not realizing that she would never see her father again, nor that three decades would pass before she returned. Making Hong Kong her permanent home, she worked as a cultural affairs specialist in the US Consulate General while raising three children with her husband, Raymond. Isabel passed away in 2023 after a happy retirement spent mostly at the mahjong table.