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DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Books of Berkeley and Oakland Asian Cultural Center 
 welcome\nJournalist and Author\nHELEN ZIA\n‘Last Boat Out of 
 Shanghai:\nThe Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's 
 Revolution’\n\nLAST BOAT OUT OF SHANGHAI is the dramatic life stories of 
 four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of 
 China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the 
 struggles faced by emigrants today.\n\nShanghai has historically been 
 China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The 
 bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, 
 and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged 
 victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists 
 would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled 
 in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to 
 fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese 
 American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about 
 their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth 
 century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of 
 four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon 
 everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the 
 United States.\n\nHelen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The 
 Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim 
 Book Prize,. 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 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.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/22/18819929.php
SUMMARY:Last Boat Out of Shanghai - Book Launch with Helen Zia
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\n388 Ninth Street Suite 290 Oakland, CA 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/12/22/18819929.php
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