Su Jin's Past in Hong Kong
by Lily
About This Novel
The book "Su Jin's Hong Kong Past" is based on the real correspondence between Su Jin and her sister Su Mei (the names of the main characters involved in the letter have been changed for the sake of the believer and her family). It tells the story of Su Jin's daily life in Hong Kong for twenty years and the joys and sorrows she experienced during that period. Su Jin is from Shanghai. When she was young, she became a dancer because of her poor family. After meeting Mr. Zhang, she gave birth to three children without status. But Zhang later took his first wife and children to Hong Kong, and Su Jin lost her source of livelihood. In desperation, she went to Hong Kong alone in 1956. The three children stayed in Shanghai and were taken care of by Su Jin's sister and brother-in-law. Su Jin lived frugally in Hong Kong and kept sending money to Shanghai. Through this book, we can feel Su Jin's forbearance and suffering as a woman and a mother in Hong Kong for twenty years; we can also see the various attitudes of an ordinary Hong Kong citizen towards life and world affairs, especially the unique experience of the changes and development of Hong Kong in the two decades from 1956 to 1976. Although these letters are Su Jin's personal sorrow and joy, they also reflect the lives of the lower class people in Hong Kong from the 1950s to the 1970s. They are not only fragments of Su Jin's personal life history, but also historical documents for studying the urban history of Hong Kong. The presentation of letters in this book is restrained and appropriate, and the source of the letters is vivid and deeply impactful.
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