| Description |
1 online resource (247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30 |
| Summary |
"This is an autobiography of a woman of unusual strength and determination who grew up in 1930s' Shanghai. Born to a traditional family of China's scholar-official class, she endured incredible suffering as her country was torn apart, first by warlords and later by the invading Japanese Imperial Army. Initially she was given a Western education and, as a teenager, was sought after as a singer of Chinese opera, socializing with tycoons, military officers and statesmen. One of her closest friends was her father's concubine. She witnessed life in the raw in Shanghai as warlordism tore the country apart. When Japan attacked Shanghai, she and her young family took refuge in Hong Kong - until Hong Kong, too, was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army." "After the war, saddled with an ageing husband who became increasingly paranoid, she took over the responsibility of single-handedly caring for her young children, while teaching herself such skills as shorthand, typing and bookkeeping so as to get, and keep, an office job. Throughout this time, her one ambition in life was to live in the United States, an ambition she ultimately fulfilled after first living in Borneo, then London and Paris. Finally, at the age of 50, she boarded the SS Queen Mary from Southampton, and on that venerable liner's final voyage sailed across the Atlantic. In the United States, she was reunited with all her children, now grown with successful careers of their own."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
Tsao, Christina Ching
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| SUBJECT |
Tsao, Christina Ching
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Tsao, Christina Ching fast |
| Subject |
Women poets, Chinese -- Biography
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Refugees -- China -- Biography
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Refugees
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Women poets, Chinese
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Chinesin
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Flüchtling
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Weltkrieg 1939-1945
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Einwanderung
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China
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Hongkong
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006432879 |
| ISBN |
9789882202740 |
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9882202748 |
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1283016710 |
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9781283016711 |
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9786613016713 |
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6613016713 |
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