The Shanghai I Knew |
A Foreign Native in Pre-Revolutionary China |
by Ellis Jacob, $18.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-9793771-0-5, © 2007, 151 pp |
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Ellis Jacob was born in 1931 in Shanghai, China. It was during his early and formative years of the 1930s that the world experienced the tumultuous events leading to World War II. During a period of only eight years, he lived under four separate governments in Shanghai, each with its own currency, police force and political ideology. He attended a mainly British elementary school and an American high school. During the war, when most school children were interned, Ellis spent a year attending the Shanghai Jewish School, one of only two English language schools open at the time. He experienced the occupation by the Japanese Imperial forces, bombing by American planes, wild inflation, liberation by Chinese and American troops, and then occupation by the People's Liberation Army in 1949. His experiences in growing up in Shanghai led him to research the city's rich history, in order to present his memoirs in a historical perspective. |
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