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Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest To Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him To Discover a Vanished China
By Gill, Ian
- ISBN
- 9789887554660
- Publisher
- Blacksmith
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Reviewed on March 8, 2024 | Social Sciences
Journalist Gill, conceived in a Japanese prison camp, recounts the story of Billie Newman, his Chinese mother. He uncovers and documents her turbulent past in pre-World War II and pre-Communist China. In this deeply personal account, he discovers her remarkable journey from an adopted child—raised as British too, she considered herself to be Eurasian—to an adult working and socializing in the milieu of tycoons, diplom...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
