The Porcelain Thief : Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China (Hardcover)

from Oberon

The Porcelain Thief by Huan Hsu. The advance press for this book compares it to The Hare With Amber Eyes. While it does not rise to the heights of that book, The Porcelain Thief has a similar structure in it uses a family legacy to trace the history of the family through a turbulent period of his...

from mdbrady

An informative mix of travelogue, history, and memoir by a Chinese man, born in the US, looking for the fine porcelain that his great grandfather was said to have buried when the Japanese army invaded China in 1938. Huan Hsu was the son of Chinese parents who had migrated to the United States. Af...

from gypsysmom

This is a personal story but also a rendering of thousands of years of the history of China. I learned a lot about porcelain making and the Chinese dynasties and also the more recent history of China as it affected this one family. Huan Hsu is an ABC, that is an American-Born Chinese. His parents...

from snash

This memoir about contacting family in Taiwan and China on a quest for the family porcelain, turns into a social commentary, travelogue, and history of China, on a personal relatable scale. My early review copy was missing a family tree and three maps which would have been very useful. This was a...

from banjo123

In this book, Hsu, an American-born Chinese takes us on a search for his great-great grandfather's porcelain collection and for his family heritage. Hsu grew up in Utah, and spent his younger years trying to avoid his Chinese heritage. So he returns to China not really speaking Chinese, and barel...