My memoir All Roads led to Shanghai gives my readers a glimpse of an environment so different and exotic from present times when, as a young girl during the 1930s and 1940s, I lived in the unique International Settlement of Shanghai. The city was a mix of Asian and European society; when Chinese women still wore cheongsams and older men dressed in long black gowns, while Japanese women wore kimonos and carried their babies on their backs. Shanghai, a thriving financial centre governed by the British, did not require entry visas. This allowed thousands of displaced people to arrive: White...
My memoir All Roads led to Shanghai gives my readers a glimpse of an environment so different and exotic from present times when, as a young girl duri...
