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Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China Yijiachuban 你一生走过 成千上万条街道; 一路上你看见 无数把你遗忘的面孔, 眼睛向你示意,

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你一生走过 成千上万条街道; 一路上你看见 无数把你遗忘的面孔, 眼睛向你示意, 心灵发出共鸣; 你终于找到了, 但只有短短的几秒钟…… 一双陌生的眼睛,一道短促的目光, 眉毛,瞳孔,睫毛-- 那曾经是什么?没有人能让时光倒转…… 结束了,流逝了,一去不返。 ——库尔特•图霍尔斯基《大城市里的眼睛》

She examines the historical forces that have led to the current political climate

” No One Knows includes the quietly brilliant long story “Schoolgirl” and shows the fiction of this 20th-century genius in a fresh light

从历史中读出教训和警戒,并不是一件愉快的事情,却是治史者良心和良知的体现。仅此一条,便构成推荐本书的充分理由。

「儘管我們之間一直有這種成長的『拔河』,母親卻仍然以一種安靜的、潛移默化的方式,把我教育成了一個,用她的語言來說,『像一株小樹一樣正直』的人。……今天我能夠理解了:她對我一方面極其嚴格,督促我努力學習、認真做事,一方面卻又極其講究自由尊重和理性思考。」──華安(安德烈)

Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China Yijiachuban 你一生走过 成千上万条街道; 一路上你看见 无数把你遗忘的面孔, 眼睛向你示意,Ian Gill's first visit to Hong Kong takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billie's friends, colleagues and fellow ex prisoners of war, lifting the veil on a tumultuous past in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He moves to Asia and unravels her intriguing journey: from controversial adoption by an English postmaster in Changsha to popular radio broadcaster in wartime Shanghai, from tragedy and a doomed romance in a Japanese internment camp to

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