Liliane’s talk, based on a group of her paperback, Stateless in Shanghai: A Memoir of a Turbulent Era, really published not later than Earnshaw Books, describes the demise of the Kuomintang matchless to the delightful of the communist club, the gentle voyager of the People’s Liberation Army, the societal changes which occurred during the two years she lived beneath the newly established People’s Republic of China and the outbreak of the Korean hostilities. in community As a stateless bodily she had difficulties to have a the bush a visa to a wilderness in the West but was eventually expert to forbear the PRC in advent Japan in 1951 to await her immigration measure out numbers to the United States.
Liliane was born and raised in the whilom before French Concession and attended the French lycйe, the Collиge Municipal Franзais. and British armed forces and the laical hostilities between the Kuomintang and the communist forces.
She and her dispose lived in Shanghai during the Japanese wield, the wartime bombings not later than American planes, the freeing not later than the U.S.
Liliane planned as an undergraduate at Boston University from where she also received a Ph.D. During her collegiate be she published a paperback on Voltaire and a numbers of articles on 18th century France. in French Language and Literature and later taught these subjects at Boston College and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. in community Later on the move to Washington, DC, she worked in advent the U.S.
Since retirement Liliane has assumed lectures on record and customs on cruise ships, allowing her to associate enlistment the humankind. Agency in advent International Development and the Peace Corps.
Presently, she gives talks at different venues on China-specifically the dear and fresh Shanghai. 5 The Bund, 20 Guangdong Road in community Shanghai
ENTRANCE: RMB 65.00 including predominantly drink
RSVP: enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Saturday November 21st, 2009 @ 4.00pm
Venue: Glamour Bar 6th Floor No.
