Name: Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China (en Inglés)
Price: 27660.00 CLP
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Author: Gill, Ian
ISBN: 9789887554660

portada Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Ian Gill

Editorial

Blacksmith Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 3.2 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9789887554660

Categorías

China
Biografías de personas históricas, políticos y soldados
Memorias bibliográficas
Historia de asia

Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China (en Inglés)

Ian Gill (Autor) · Blacksmith Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China (en Inglés)"

Ian Gill's first visit to Hong Kong takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billie's friends, colleagues and fellow ex-prisoners of war, lifting the veil on a tumultuous past in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He moves to Asia and unravels her intriguing journey: from controversial adoption by an English postmaster in Changsha to popular radio broadcaster in wartime Shanghai, from tragedy and a doomed romance in a Japanese internment camp to being decorated by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the United Nations. He discovers a great-grandmother in a determined English farm girl who ends up owning a well-known hotel on the China coast in the 1870s - and he finally meets his father for the first time on a Canadian island in 1985. The backdrop for this fascinating family story is China's turbulent century between the Anglo-Chinese wars and the advent of communism.