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"Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer 8217 s Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the YearTrue 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 8217 s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and 8217 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 8213 and that she will never see her father again. She returns to Shanghai fifty years later with her daughter, Claire, to confront their family 8217 s past 8213 one they discover is filled with love and betrayal, kidnappers and concubines,
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