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.