Shanghai Forever Lost: 浮生上海

Fu Sheng Shanghai is the new version of Sonia Hus biography book Shanghai Forever Lost. Its a book about the life of her mother and grandmother in Shanghai and Peking between the 1920s to 1950s. The book reveals the personal journey of the authors mother and grandmother under the regimes of both the Nationalist government and the Communist government. It portraits how the power change and the Thought Reform right after 1949 impacted the course and fate of their lives.Originally it was contracted by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Culture Publishing House in 2018 to release in China. However due to the ideological issues it did not pass the political censorship and the publishing contract was terminated in 2019 due to Force Majeure.《浮生上海》是华裔作家胡桃的非虚构传记文学《上海浮生若梦》的最新版本。 该书于2018年与江苏文艺出版社签约，改名为《浮生上海》，后因意识形态问题无法通过审查于2019年以不可抗力因素解约。《浮生上海》讲述了一对母女所经历的1949年前的上海和1949年后的北平，并通过她们的经历以白描的手法描述了这对母女从1925年到1952年前后从上海到北平这段二十多年人生的变迁，精彩地回顾了老上海时期的殖民地生活，以及上海沪江大学的生活，包括了许多不为人知的历史，如华北人民革命大学，知识分子的早期思想改造以及抗美援朝前后的参军经历。