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The Porcelain Thief : Searching the Middle Kingdom of Buried China

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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.

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928 HUA t

Publisher

United States : Crown Publishers., 2015

Collation

xv + 380 p.: ill.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

970-0-307-98630-6

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928

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text

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volume

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Biography
Autobiography

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Huan Hsu

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