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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

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A delightful and engaging book, seamlessly weaving together the author's two themes: growing up in Hangchow and Hangchow itself. It is evocative but not gushy, thoughtful and insightful but not pretentious. I have no reservation in urging you to read it a recommendation I've made for only one other China memoir. -- Oscar V. Armstrong The China Connection A poignant memoir of growing up in Hangchow, the beautiful Chinese city known as heaven below before war and urban planning destroyed so much. The author's prose is graceful and free of artifice, and her vividly detailed recollections] ]succeed in breathing life into] ]a distant place that once was, and still is home. -- Review Editor Kirkus Reviews This book is wonderfully evocative of one of China's most beautiful and cultured former Imperial Capitals, as it was in the early 20th century, immediately after the collapse of the Manchu Dynasty. -- A. Doak Barnett, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies Johns Hopkins University This is a charming, child's-eye view of growing up in an historic Chinese city. It will interest 'old China Hands' like me, and others curious about how it was to grow up in an American missionary family in old Hangchow. -- Ralph N. Clough, Former Director of Chinese Affairs U.S. State Department Memoir writing at its best. Against the backdrop of national upheaval following the 1911 revolution, the author chronicles her American parents' effort to modernize urban China, and her joy in feeling so at home in historic, civilized Hangchow. This vivid account sheds important light on the bygone embrace of American and Chinese relations. -- P. Richard Bohr, Associate Professor of History, Director of Asian Studies College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Hangchow, My Home describes the perceptions of a child growing up in a country not her own, but in a culture that soon becomes forever part of her; only here is she completely at home. The thousands, perhaps millions of children who have grown up as 'third culture kids,' and their parents, will find great value in these pages. -- Michael Bell IMF, Asian and African Desks

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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.

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