Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home (American) - Softcover

Li, Veronica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931907439 ISBN 13: 9781931907439

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books, 2015

Synopsis

This is a true and touching story of one Chinese woman's search for home. It is also an inspiring book about human yearning for a better life. To escape poverty, Flora Li fought her way through the education system and became one of the few women to get into the prestigious Hong Kong University. When the Japanese invaded, she fled to unoccupied China, where she met her future husband, the son of China's finance minister (later deputy prime minister). She thought she had found the ideal husband, but soon discovered that he suffered from emotional disorders caused by family conflicts and the wars he had grown up in. Whenever he had a breakdown, Flora would move the family to another city, from Shanghai to Nanking to Hong Kong to Bangkok to Taipei and finally across the four seas to the U.S. Throughout her migrations, Flora kept her sight on one goal: providing her children with the best possible education.

About this title

About the Author:

Author of a thriller, Nightfall in Mogadishu, Veronica Li grew up mostly in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. with her parents at fifteen. She has a B.A. in English from University of California, Berkeley and a master's in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University. Li was a journalist for seven years, working for the Asian Wall Street Journal and other news organizations. She later joined the World Bank, for which she traveled extensively and got her inspiration for her novel and other writings.

Review:

For readers not familiar with China, Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman s Search for Home captures the Chinese family, its values and traditions, its comforts and constraints, and the characteristic patience and perseverance of the Chinese women. To all readers, it is a very lively story of a remarkable woman who accepted circumstances she could not change, who never complained about the cards life had dealt with her, but was ready to make courageous choices when the opportunities arose. -- Kathy Ogawa, Washington Journal of Modern China (a publication of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation)

It is a story about hardships, survival strategies, networks, and above all, family. -- Gloria Scott, former advisor on Women in Development, World Bank

This book is an amazing read...It's the Asian Grapes of Wrath. -- Adair Lara, award-winning columnist, The San Francisco Chronicle

This is history as biography that can bring nostalgia attacks to old Asia hands. -- Eduardo Lachica, former Washington bureau chief of The Asian Wall Street Journal --The Asian Wall Street Journal

"It is a story about hardships, survival strategies, networks, and above all, family." -- Gloria Scott, former advisor on Women in Development, World Bank

"This book is an amazing read...It's the Asian Grapes of Wrath." -- Adair Lara, award-winning columnist, The San Francisco Chronicle

"This is history as biography that can bring nostalgia attacks to old Asia hands." -- Eduardo Lachica, former Washington bureau chief of The Asian Wall Street Journal --The Asian Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1931907439
• ISBN 13: 9781931907439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298