Seeking Home
A World War II Refugee Childhood in War-Torn China
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2025
232 pages
979-8-7651-5486-1 (ISBN)
Description
Seeking Home is a memoir of a childhood in China as a refugee from Nazi Germany during the turbulent years 1934-49. Richter recalls the little-known history of North China's occupation by the Japanese during the World War II years amid the remnants of a dying British colonialism.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
18 b/w illustrations
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-5486-1 (9798765154861)
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10/2025
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Born in Germany, Eva Richter grew up as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Tianjin, China, where she lived through the turbulent years of the run-up to the Second World War, the Japanese occupation and the civil war that followed, until the Communist Revolution in 1949 decided the family to leave for the United States. She retired from teaching English at the City University of New York in 2002 to take up NGO advocacy work at the United Nations and co-founded the NGO Committee on Migration at the UN in 2007, serving on its Executive Committee and the Executive Committees of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women and the UN Department of Public Information. She is a member of the NGO Committee on Human Rights, was a member of the Expert Working Group for Addressing Women's Human Rights in the Global Compacts.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Part I: My China Home
- Chapter 1: Empire Day, May 24, 1937: Tientsin, China
- Chapter 2: The Michel Family
- Chapter 3: The Lewinson Family
- Chapter 4: Tientsin, Gateway to the North
- Chapter 5: Life in the Concessions
- Chapter 6: Language and Culture
- Chapter 7: The Tientsin Grammar School
- Chapter 8: Peitaiho Haven
- Chapter 9: Pearl Harbor Day: The Japanese Take Over
- Chapter 10: School Alternatives
- Chapter 11: St. Joseph's School
- Chapter 12: The Lives of the Foreigners
- Chapter 13: Japanese Occupation
- Chapter 14: The Politics of Citizenship
- Chapter 15: Liberation
- Chapter 16: The Fate of the Family
- Chapter 17: The Aftermath
- Chapter 18: After the War Is Over . . .
- Chapter 19: Nationality and Religion
- Chapter 20: Breaking Out
- Chapter 21: Coda
- Chapter 22: We're on Our Way
- Part II: America
- Chapter 23: Meeting the Future: The Long Road to New York
- Chapter 24: Meeting Middle America
- Chapter 25: Reconnecting, Retooling, Recalibrating
- Chapter 26: Settling In
- Chapter 27: Finding My Home
- Postscript
- Notes
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- About the Author
