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About
Journey Across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman’s
Search for Home
A
Memoir
This is a story of the Chinese diaspora as illustrated
by one woman’s search for home. Flora Li began
her life in 1918 in Hong Kong, then a British colony.
Her father died when she was three, plunging the family
into destitution. To escape poverty, Flora fought her
way through the education system and became one of the
few women to get into Hong Kong University. In her senior
year, the Japanese invaded Hong Kong. She fled to unoccupied
China, where she met her future husband, the son of
China’s finance minister. She thought she had
found the ideal husband, but no sooner was the wedding
over than she discovered that he suffered from emotional
disorders caused by family conflicts and the wars he
had grown up in. Whenever he had a breakdown, Flora
would move the family to another city, from Shanghai
to Nanking to Hong Kong to Bangkok and finally across
the four seas to the U.S. Throughout her migrations,
Flora kept her sight on one goal—providing her
children with the best possible education.
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Journey Across the Four Seas: A
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(A Memoir )
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