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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Spring Flower Book 1: A Tale of Two Rivers

Spring Flower Book 1: A Tale of Two Rivers

Tren-Hwa Perkins, Jean Tren-Hwa
Perkins Hsung, Richard

Paperback

Series: Spring Flower, Book 1

Biographies GeneralChinese HistoryPregnancy & Adoption

ISBN10: 9888769227
ISBN13: 9789888769223
Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd
Published: Feb 7 2022
Pages: 388
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The story of one woman's journey from poverty to privilege to persecution, and her determination to survive as history and circumstance evolved around her. Tren-Hwa (Spring Flower) was born in a dirt-floored hut along the Yangtze River in Central China during the catastrophic floods of 1931. Her father was so upset she was a girl, he stormed out of the hut, and she was given up for adoption to a missionary couple, Dr. Edward and Mrs. Georgina Perkins. Renamed Jean Perkins, she attended English-speaking schools in China, went to high school in New York near the Hudson River, and then after World War II returned to China with her parents. Spring Flower is both eyewitness history and the eloquent memoir of a young girl growing up during the brutal Japanese occupation and the communist takeover of China. In 1950, with the Korean War raging, Jean's adoptive parents had to flee China, leaving her behind....

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