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Last Boat Out Of Shanghai The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Fled Maos Revolution Helen Zia

Name: Last Boat Out Of Shanghai The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Fled Maos Revolution Helen Zia
SKU: BELL-7352904
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Last Boat Out Of Shanghai The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Fled Maos Revolution Helen Zia instant download after payment.

Publisher: Ballantine Books, Penguin Random House

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 26.58 MB

Pages: 544

Author: Helen Zia

ISBN: 9780345522320, 034552232X

Language: English

Year: 2019

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Last Boat Out Of Shanghai The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Fled Maos Revolution Helen Zia by Helen Zia 9780345522320, 034552232X instant download after payment.

Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States.

Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival.

Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by e