{"product_id":"9781954854031","title":"Remembering Shanghai","description":"Author: Isabel Sun Chao\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781954854031\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Girl Friday\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Jan 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 308\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrue 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eRemembering Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875640496286,"sku":"ADS-9781954854031","price":54.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781954854031.jpg?v=1779754335","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781954854031","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}