Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West Philo of Alexandria Commentary Author: Victor Angelo Soffiantini

Author: Victor Angelo Soffiantini

England to New York in 1776

World War II was still raging

She is the author of The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford

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Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West Philo of Alexandria Commentary Author: Victor Angelo SoffiantiniSpanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the UK. Their lives were as dramatic as the times they lived through. A love of food and a talent for cooking pulled each generation through the most devastating of upheavals.