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Gudao, Lone Islet: The War Years in Shanghai - a childhood memoir
by Margaret Blair
220 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2901; ISBN 1-4251-1142-4; US$18.70, C$21.50, EUR14.58, £9.66
Shanghai, China - and lifestyles of Chinese and foreigners - in 1930s to 1946. Internment by Japanese, Adventures, World War II events in China and Pacific, Chinese Holocaust
About the Book
From time to time a city steps onto the world stage as the embodiment of modernity to which people flock for fame and entertainment, power, money and limitless opportunity. In the 1930s Shanghai was such a place. Thus begins Margaret Blair's multifaceted, powerful and moving story.
Reviews
"This is one memoir you have to read ..."
Betty Jane Wylie, O.C.
Author of Beginnings: A Book for Widows
Past Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada
"This book is very hard to put down... a very satisfying ending."
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