Eugenia B Schultheis

Hangchow, My Home

Growing Up in Heaven Below

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recalls the city of Hangchow from the persective of the young daughter of an American missionary family in the early 1900s. Eugenia Schultheis' memoir paints an entrancing picture of the venerated capital city at the time when the influence of the West had only begunto be felt. Winner of the 2001 BAIPA Award for Best Memoir

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lost Coast Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781882897469
• ISBN-10: 1882897463
• Artikelnr.: 21096754

Autorenporträt

Born in Shanghai in 1913, Eugenia Schultheis spent her first seventeen years in China, living in Shanghai, Beijing and the much-revered, historic city of Hangchow. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Randolph-Macon Women's College, at Lynchburg, Virginia, and completing her graduate work in Columbia University's Department of Chinese Studies, Ms. Schultheis returned to China, where she became a teacher of English and a college librarian, and resumed her extensive travels through Asia. An accomplished author and editor, Ms. Schultheis has lived in Arlington, Virginia, since her return to the U.S. in 1954.