Publisher's Synopsis
In this book, Edward Rhoads recounts his childhood and early teenage years during the Sino-Japanese War and the early postwar years. Rhoads came from a biracial family. His father was an American professor while his Chinese mother was a typist and stenographer. In the late 1930s and the 1940s, the Rhoads family lived through the turbulent years in southern China and Hong Kong. The book follows Rhoads' childhood in Guangzhou, his family's evacuation to Hong Kong, his father's internment and repatriation to the U.S., and his and his mother's flight to Free China. He recalls his reunion with family members in northern Guangdong in 1943, their retreat to China's wartime capital of Chongqing, where his father worked for the American government, and how they returned to Guangzhou after the war.
