| Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels Premium Edition Contributor(s): Chao, Claire (Author), Sun Chao, Isabel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0999393804 ISBN-13: 9780999393802 Publisher: Plum Brook OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.60 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Outstanding Memoir winner and Book of the Year, second place, awarded by the Independent Author Network 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. Meanwhile, the family she has left behind struggles to survive, only to have their world shattered by the Cultural Revolution. Isabel 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 pleasure palaces and underworld crime bosses.
Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss and the unpredictable nature of life against the epic backdrop of a nation and a people in turmoil. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chao, Claire: - Isabel's daughter, Claire Chao, spent much of her youth seeking connections to her parents' homeland. After thirty years in management with companies such as Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston and Hill & Knowlton, she spent a decade creating Remembering Shanghai, uncovering an uncanny link with the grandfather she never met. She has been designated one of Avenue magazine's "500 Most Influential Asian Americans" and Hong Kong Tatler's "Who's Who in Hong Kong." She graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and lives in Honolulu with her husband and two dogs.Sun Chao, Isabel: - Isabel Sun Chao is one of the last of her generation to have experienced legendary "Old Shanghai" firsthand. After growing up in Shanghai, she left for Hong Kong on what she thought was a holiday in 1950 and never saw her father again. She has since lived in Hong Kong, where she worked for more than thirty years as a cultural affairs specialist in the US Consulate General. Now in her eighties, Isabel is retired and most days can be found exercising her skills and diplomacy at the mahjong table. |
