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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution Paperback - 2020

by Helen Zia

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Ballantine Books, February 2020. Paperback. Used - Good.
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  • Title Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
  • Author Helen Zia
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books
  • Date February 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 265759
  • ISBN 9780345522337 / 0345522338
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects China - Emigration and immigration - History, Shanghai (China) - History - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.042

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About the author

Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize (Bill Clinton referred to the book in two separate Rose Garden speeches). Zia is the co-author, with Wen Ho Lee, of My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy. She is also a former executive editor of Ms. magazine. A Fulbright Scholar, Zia first visited China in 1972, just after President Nixon's historic trip. A graduate of Princeton University, she holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from the City University of New York School of Law and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.