Winner of 29 Book Awards, including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize and the Rubery Book Award Book of the Year
Remembering Shanghai is a captivating true story of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of the Sun family, from the twilight of imperial China to the Cultural Revolution.
In 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, Isabel Sun’s life is one of privilege and elegance. Her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from the civil unrest and Japanese occupation that threaten their gilded existence. But when Mao rises to power, Isabel flees to Hong Kong at eighteen, unaware she will never see her father again.
Fifty years later, Isabel returns to Shanghai with her daughter, Claire, to confront the family’s extraordinary past—one of love, betrayal, kidnappers, concubines, glittering palaces, and underworld crime lords.
Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai is a vivid memoir of identity, loss, and redemption.
