![]() ![]() ![]() 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. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the family forever. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. 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.Ī high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. ![]() WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao ![]()
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