Bøger af Edna Lee Booker

""Flight From China"" is a historical novel written by Edna Lee Booker. The story takes place in 1949, during the Communist Revolution in China. It follows the journey of a wealthy Chinese family, the Chens, as they flee their homeland and navigate the challenges of starting a new life in America. The patriarch of the family, Mr. Chen, is a successful businessman who is forced to leave behind his company and his fortune. His wife, Mrs. Chen, is a traditional Chinese woman who struggles to adapt to Western culture. Their children, including their daughter Mei Ling, face their own challenges as they adjust to life in America and try to find their place in a new country. Along the way, the family encounters both kindness and prejudice from their American neighbors. Through their experiences, the Chens learn the importance of perseverance, family, and the resilience of the human spirit. ""Flight From China"" is a poignant and insightful novel that offers a unique perspective on the Chinese-American immigrant experience.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Edna Lee Booker was an internationally recognized foreign correspondent who lived in China for two decades, along with her businessman husband John Potter. Raising a family in Shanghai, they were there when the Japanese invaded and occupied China. Looked upon with the suspicion of Americans in wartime, they realized the increasing danger. Edna and her children fled to the United States just days before they were to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp. John was not so fortunate, and was interned in unholy conditions for years. This is their tale-a journey of living in an exotic land during harrowing times of change and domination, a journey from the land to return home. It is also a book of hope, especially of hope for the safe return of John to his family. And it depicts the daily lives of Edna and her family, and the people they meet and love in China over the years, before the invasion changed their lives, and the country, forever. The Quid Pro edition is a Digitally Remastered Book-a correct reproduction unlike any new version available today. This process removes underlines, stray marks, and printer errors typically found in such reprints, and completes missing letters and words. It provides a cleaner, complete, and more professional presentation. Without the distracting artifacts left in other publishers' facsimile reprints, this book provides a pleasing reading experience and an accurate rendition of the original work. Part of the Journeys and Memoirs Series from Quid Pro Books.

One of the first women journalists in China, Edna Lee Booker arrived in 1922 and threw herself into the story, snagging a number of exclusive interviews with warlords and also with Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung. She worked on the Shanghai newspaper China Press, and was also the Shanghai stringer for the International News Service, InterNews.