Ninety Days in Guangzhou

About the Book

The narrative of a series of events which happened to a bourgeois couple and their teenagers daughter form Hong Kong while they were staying in Guangzhou for three months during the time the Red Guards were rampaging through all of the big cities in China.

When deciduous leaves change their colours, even Guangzhou can be chilly. When some government officials were welcoming the mother and daughter, who had just arrived to visit the ill husband, all three were immediately placed under house arrest.

The turning point came when Chou En-lai, who had been under the surveillance of the Red Guards in his own office in the State Department for several days, suddenly regained his power as premier.

A dramatic ending as a mixture of tears and laughter.

About the Author

Born in Shanghai, lived in Hong Kong and educated further at the University of British Columbia, she is now a retired interpreter living in Kerrisdale in Vancouver, B.C. She also writes traditional Chinese poetry and her work has been published in Shangai, China.

As a former volunteer with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, she loves both Western and Oriental music, as well as the performing arts. She was a student of the Mandarin opera master, Mei Lan fang and performed on stage for a variety of benefit performances. Her first performance, "The Legend of a Horse Trader", in the Central Theatre (since demolished) on Hong Kong Island in 1949 initiated the popularity of Mandarin opera in Hong Kong, Later, she performed in the Grand Hall Theatre, before she left Hong Kong.

This is the narrative of a series of events which happened to a bourgeois coupe and their teenaged daughter from Hong Kong while they were staying in Guangzhou for three months during the time the Red Guards were rampaging through all of the big cities in China. When deciduous leaves change their colours, even Guangzhou can be chilly. When some government officials were welcoming the mother and daughter, who had just arrived to visit the ill husband, all three were immediately placed under house arrest.

The turning point came when Chou En-lai, who had been under the surveillance of the Red Guards in his own office in the State Department for several days, suddenly regained his power as premier. A dramatic ending as a mixture of tears and laughter.