Farewell, My Beijing

Download or read book Farewell, My Beijing written by Chi Newman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chi Newman grew up in Beijing, China, amid manicured courtyards, servants, powerful friends, and lavish entertainments. With her equally precocious identical twin sister, Lu, she attended an exclusive convent school where she learned to speak French and English. But at the age of thirteen, Chi and Lu's world turned upside-down. To ensure that they escaped the Communists who had entered the city, their parents gave them each a small suitcase and put them on a plane to Nanjing. What followed was a journey neither of them could have imagined. Farewell, My Beijing: The Long Journey from China to Tucsonis a gripping, first-person account of life as experienced by a true internationalist.