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The Porcelain Thief
Huan Hsu (Author)
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Harpercollins Publishers
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The Porcelain Thief - Huan Hsu
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Synopsis "The Porcelain Thief"
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 is fast approaching Xingang, the Yangtze River hometown of Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather, Liu. Along with four of his granddaughters, Liu prepares to flee. Before they leave, they dig a hole and fill it to the brim with family heirlooms. Among 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 for many years no one returned to find it- until now. Huan Hsu, a journalist raised in America and armed only with curiosity, went to China 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 to finally complete 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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The book is written in English.
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