Sons and daughters of early-twentieth century missionaries, these Americans grew up far from home in a country fractured by chaos. They lived with a foot in two cultures, speaking Chinese as a first language and growing to adulthood as war and unrest took over the country and the world. When they finally arrived in their “home” country, they had to learn how to become Americans. 基本信息 商品名称： 生于中国 Born in China 开本： 16开 作者： ... 展开完整描述 ▼
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商品名称： 生于中国 Born in China 开本： 16开 作者： （美）赫德（Helde,J.） 著 定价： 80.00 ISBN号： 9787119085814 出版时间： 2014-06-01 出版社： 外文出版社 印刷时间： 2014-06-01 版次： 1 印次： 1
Contents For as long as I can remember, I"ve known my father was born in China. The part of his life I experienced, though, centered on the suburban home where I grew up – a very American kind of life. He didn"t talk about his childhood much, and I paid little attention to his China past. It wasn’t until I was well into adulthood that a few chance discoveries brought his childhood to the surface. One day, when I was back at the family home for a visit - I happened to pick a book off my parents’ shelf, a memoir called Golden Inches, by Grace Service, a China missionary of the 1920’s. Inside, I discovered a photo of my grandparents George and Ruth Helde on the way to Sichuan, and the story of my father"s birth on a remote mountaintop known as “Behludin.” Next, I came across a stack of photos I"d never seen, an album of my father"s life as an American boy in China. The pictures felt like a window into another world, one that looked exciting and adventurous – living in a Chinese house, traveling by sedan chair through rugged countryside, traversing the Yangtze by house boat. For the first time, I realized just how little I knew about my father"s childhood – and, how little I knew my father.
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