Peking Sun, Shanghai Moon
Posted: October 19th, 2011 | 3 Comments »This interesting little book – Peking Sun, Shanghai Moon: Images From a Past Era – came out some time ago, back in 2008 I think, from the eponymous Tess Johnston’s Old China Hand Press here in Shanghai. But it’s taken me an age to get round to reading it. It’s the memoirs of Diana Hutchins Angulo, the daughter of a US Naval Attache assigned to the US Legation in Peking and then Shanghai and includes vignettes of life in both cities between the wars as well as trips to Mongolia, the Western Hills outside Peking and so on. There’s some interesting photos and particularly nice descriptions of Shanghai’s 1930s nightlife and 1920s Peking Legation Quarter life. Well worth a read, and well done to Tess and the Old China Hand Press for printing it.
Diana is my Mother, living now in Bryn Mawr, PA (USA). She still has wonderful tales to tell of her nearly 20 years in China between the Wars…and beautiful photos from her father’s and her scrapbooks from that time. Those interested in that period in China can contact her through me.
Please advise how I can purchase this book. I have read excerpts and would live to buy the entire book.
Please email Tess Johnston, the publisher, on tessinshanghai@yahoo.com and she can arrange a copy to be send to you in return for a cheque