A Family Memoir
Despite its grimy windows that appeared to have not been washed in decades and rusted art deco banister, echoes of the Sun family home’s former elegance still remained when Isabel Sun Chao returned to her childhood home in Shanghai she had left nearly 60 years before.
When she left her family’s opulent mansion at 18 to visit her mother in Hong Kong, Isabel didn’t know it would be the last time she would see her father or most of her family. It was 1950, Mao Zedong had become chairman of the Communist Party of China, and life as Isabel knew it
