The porcelain thief: searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China
(Book)
"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"--
China -- History -- 19th century.
China -- History -- 20th century.
Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans -- Travel -- China.
Hsu, Huan -- Family.
Hsu, Huan -- Travel -- China.
Jiujiang Region (Jiangxi Sheng, China) -- Biography.
Porcelain, Chinese -- History.
Treasure troves -- China -- Jiujiang Region (Jiangxi Sheng)
Notes
Hsu, H. (2015). The porcelain thief: searching the Middle Kingdom for buried China. First edition. New York, Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hsu, Huan. 2015. The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China. New York, Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hsu, Huan, The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China. New York, Crown Publishers, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hsu, Huan. The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China. First edition. New York, Crown Publishers, 2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Map #1 (China and Taiwan) -- Map #2 (Liu's Journey) -- Map #3 (Huan's Journey) -- Prologue -- 1. This is China -- 2. A Chicken Talking With 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. | |
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