Isabel recounts the privileged childhood she enjoyed with her siblings in a household that - even with the conflicts between their kind but philandering father and social butterfly mother - was an oasis in uncertain times. This book is the story of her life and adventures in exotic Shanghai and beyond. Though the Sun family’s landholdings and fortune was much diminished by the time of Isabel’s birth in 1931, she still enjoyed an upper-class upbringing, shielded from the growing unrest beyond the gates of her family’s home. His fabulous wealth gave rise to scandal and devastating betrayal but also enabled successive generations to lead affluent lives. It all began with Isabel’s great-grandfather, a servant boy who became a successful businessman, no small feat in a society with little upward social mobility. In their joint memoir, REMEMBERING SHANGHAI : A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels, authors Isabel Sun Chao and her daughter Claire delve into the Sun family’s thrilling past, reaching back to their lowly roots and tracing their ascension to wealth and prominence before the fall of Imperial China.
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