Authors: Ursula Bacon
ISBN-13: 9781595820006, ISBN-10: 1595820000
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Shanghai, China-once called the "Armpit of the World"-was the port of last resort for 18,000 European Jews escaping from Adolph Hitler's extermination pogroms in Europe. As a survivor of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in WWII, the author tells her remakable story of growing to maturity in the teeming clutter and clamor of crowded streets, screeching vendors, the miasma of running sewage, discarded newborn girl-babies, dripping humidity and pestilence-breeding rats. Between tears and laughter, she relates how she and her parents learned to live by their wits, overcome despair and value life more dearly because danger and death were always near. The author saw her best friend die of fever, learned about life and matters of the soul from a buddhist monk, about love from Chinese concubines, swam plague-infested waters to aid in the rescue of American airmen and took to heart the message of wise old Mrs. Goldberg who always reminded her, "Go out and make a miracle today, God's busy, He can't do it all."
Foreword | xi | |
Prologue | 3 | |
1 | March 1939: The Year of the Hare | 13 |
2 | May 1939: The Year of the Hare | 31 |
3 | August 1939: The Year of the Hare | 43 |
4 | September 1939 to January 1940: The Year of the Dragon | 61 |
5 | 1940 to January 1942: The Year of the Snake | 79 |
6 | 1942: The Year of the Horse | 113 |
7 | Early 1943: The Year of the Sheep | 127 |
8 | March 1943: The Year of the Sheep | 139 |
9 | Mid 1943: The Year of the Sheep | 157 |
10 | December 1943: The Year of the Sheep | 169 |
11 | 1944: The Year of the Monkey | 187 |
12 | 1945: The Year of the Cock | 213 |
13 | 1945, Part Two: The Year of the Cock | 231 |
14 | 1945, Part Three: The Last Half of the Year of the Cock | 245 |
15 | 1946: The Year of the Dog | 257 |
16 | 1947: The Year of New Beginnings | 263 |
Epilogue | 265 |