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Author Hsu, Huan.

Title The porcelain thief : searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China / Huan Hsu.

Publisher New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]

ISBN 9780307986306
0307986306



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Edition First edition.
Description viii, 380 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustration (some colored), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Contents Map #1 (China and Taiwan) -- Map #2 (Liu's Journey) -- Map #3 (Huan's Journey) -- Prologue -- 1. This is China -- 2. A Chicken Talking A Duck -- 3. Liu Feng Su -- 4. Panda Chinese -- 5. The Orphan -- 6. Street Fight -- 7. Journey to the West -- 8. The Real China -- 9. End of Paradise -- 10. From Far Formosa -- 11. City on Fire 12. Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots -- 13. All Death is a Homecoming -- 14. Nanjing -- 15. Northern Expedition -- 16. A Stumble From Which There Is No Recovering -- 17. The Nine Rivers -- 18. The Long Valley -- 19. Xingang Marks The Spot -- 20. Chasing the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea.
Summary "A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle's semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family's long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hsu, Huan -- Family.
Hsu, Huan -- Travel -- China.
Subject(S) Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans -- Travel -- China.
Treasure troves -- China -- Jiujiang Region (Jiangxi Sheng)
Porcelain, Chinese -- History.
Jiujiang Region (Jiangxi Sheng, China) -- Biography.
China -- Description and travel.
China -- History -- 19th century.
China -- History -- 20th century.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780307986306
0307986306