Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Earnshaw Books (2015), Edition: Sixth edition, 328 pages
Description
With vivid firsthand descriptions of Asia's most cosmopolitan city from the 1920s to the 1950s, this recollection chronicles Liliane Willens' life and trials in Shanghai as China collapsed under the weight of foreign invaders and civil war. Engaging and often humorous, this unique memoir relates Willens' experiences as a Jewish Russian living in early Communist China.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
328 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
9881616263 / 9789881616265
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