The Golden Branches and Jade Leaves of Shanghai
by Chen Danyan
About This Novel
She is the daughter of the boss of Shanghai Yongan Company. She studied at the famous Chinese and Western Girls' School when she was 6 years old, and graduated from the Psychology Department of Yenching University at the age of 24. Her father returned to China at the invitation of Sun Yat-sen to establish Shanghai's newest department store. Her second sister and Soong Meiling were close friends, and her best friend in college was Kang Youwei's granddaughter. She married at the age of 25, and her husband was a descendant of Lin Zexu's family. In the years that followed, she encountered the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Four Cleans-ups, and the Cultural Revolution. She experienced widowhood, house confiscation, and forced labor, leaving her completely destitute. But the ordeal did not make her resentful. She could still use an aluminum pot to bake Petersburg-style cakes on a briquette stove, and use a chicken brought back from the farm to make her son happy for a long time... When she died at the age of 90, she donated her body to the Red Cross in Shanghai, and the souvenir she received was a wreath with the word "90" woven from her white hair. Her name is Daisy, which means daisy in English.
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