Bøger af Paul Chow

Six young men from Taiwan, with no money nor sailing experience, shared a dream to sail a Chinese coastal junk on the big oceans. They found a dilapidated junk in the backwater of their fishing village. With conning and cajoling they managed to get her to sea, but just ten miles out everything started going wrong. Three days after a celebratory send-off, the crew limped back to port with their tails between their legs. Yet four months later, having survived many red tapes, a typhoon, a gale and countless defeats, despair, fears of death and near-mutiny fights, the junk finally completed her journey across the Pacific. Picking up a strong wind underneath the Golden Gate Bridge she outran all the boats carrying the customs officers, the immigration officers and the press corps that were chasing her. On the following day, their story was carried by media all over the world. "...a bold journey..." -San Francisco Chronicle "...a historic moment..." -San Francisco Examiner"...our Parthenon..." -Historical Monuments displayed on San Francisco Waterfront "...as seaworthy as picturesque..." -Movietone News"...Naeste gang - sa rejs med junke!" -Hjemmet, Gothenburg

When a sailor was rescued from a shipwreck, he could not fit back into the society he left behind. He went back to sea to find his old life but came to a land where people looked at the world with different perspective. He abandoned ship and went ashore to seek adventure in a totally different direction - the fantasy of science.

Two enemies, a Japanese scientist's wife and a Chinese peasant woman, were drawn together in an unusual situation during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945). Their daughters grew up together and became inseparable. When the war ended, all Japanese were repatriated back to Japan. Not wanting to subject an innocent child to the unknown harsh life of a post-war Japan, the young scientist couple left their daughter in China to be cared for by the Chinese peasant. As soon as the relationship between China and the United States returned to normal, this Japanese couple returned to China to look for their long-lost daughter. This is a story about conflicting emotions: friendship and animosity, love and hatred, kindness and cruelty, trust and betrayal.

When the Nazis in Germany were rounding up the Jews for the labor camps and the rest of the world were refusing to accept these refugees, a tailor sneaked his family out of Vienna with the help of a Gypsy family. They ended up in Venice and boarded an ocean-going vessel. Thirty-eight days later, they arrived in Shanghai and found themselves immersed in a world of totally different culture and religious beliefs. They were spared of Hitler's slaughter. But were they going to lose their own culture and tradition? This is the story of their struggles for survival.

Her feet were bound and then unbound. Her father's hair changed from a cue to a crew cut. Three revolutions, one civil war and two world wars later, China went from a feudal society to communism. Liberated? Armed with a western education the world had changed under her feet, but how does she walk in this new world? The footprints of her small feet could be found imprinted on China's history.