NEW BOOKS

Permanently Temporary: From Berlin to Shanghai in Half a Century

by Tess Johnston

Tess Johnston's peripatetic half a century has taken her through fourteen Foreign Service postings to her retirement – and this book, written in her permanently temporary home in Shanghai. She loves to talk, and to write and the range of her interests is broad. Tess has filled them with life, with anecdotes and with humor. Travel with her in her "little life" in a wider world. Reviews of Permanently Temporary have appeared in the South China Morning Post and That's Shanghai magazine.

Missy’s China – Letters from Hangchow, 1934-1937
by Doris (“Missy”) Arnold

A “small town American girl” came with her family to live in China during a troubled era. In a memorable three years Missy wrote weekly letters home about her life in a small expat enclave surrounded by the culture and chaos of her host city. She is a keen observer of her little world, and her letters are rich in minute details (and humor) that enable her family (and the readers) to experience old China through her perceptive eyes.

Peking Sun, Shanghai Moon – Images from a Past Era
by Diana Hutchins Angulo

A rare glimpse into the private lives of wealthy foreigners living in Peking and Shanghai. Through the eyes of a beautiful young girl we are caught up in the lives of wealth and privilege, of social activities and obligations, of the foreign community in China between 1920 and 1940. Supplemented by photographs from family albums and contemporary newspapers, she gives us an entrée into the glamorous expatriate world in the last frenetic days of pre-war Shanghai.