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The Porcelain Thief (Hardcover)
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The Porcelain Thief (Hardcover)
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List price R532
Loot Price R400
Discovery Miles 4 000
You Save R132 (25%)
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In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan
Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters,
were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze
River. But before they left a hole was dug as deep as a man, and as
wide as a bedroom, in which was stowed the family heirlooms. The
longer I looked at that red chrysanthemum plate, the more I wanted
to touch it, feel its weight, and run my fingers over its edge,
which, like its country's - and my family's - history, was anything
but smooth. 1938. The Japanese army were fast approaching Xingang,
the Yangtze River hometown of Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather,
Liu. Along with his five granddaughters, Liu prepares to flee.
Before they leave, they dig a hole and fill it to the brim with
family heirlooms. Amongst their antique furniture, jade and
scrolls, was Liu's vast collection of prized antique porcelain. A
decades-long flight across war-torn China splintered the family
over thousands of miles. Grandfather Liu's treasure remained buried
along with a time that no one wished to speak of. And no one
returned to find it - until now. Huan Hsu, a journalist raised in
America and armed only with curiosity, returned to China many years
later. Wanting to learn more about not only his lost ancestral
heirlooms but also porcelain itself, Hsu set out to separate the
layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his
heritage and finally completed his family's long march back home.
Melding memoir and travelogue with social and political history,
The Porcelain Thief is an intimate and unforgettable way to
understand the bloody, tragic and largely forgotten events that
defined Chinese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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