Hangzhou, My Hometown: A Memoir of Growing Up in Paradise - Perfect for Travel Enthusiasts & Cultural Explorers
Hangzhou, My Hometown: A Memoir of Growing Up in Paradise - Perfect for Travel Enthusiasts & Cultural Explorers
Hangzhou, My Hometown: A Memoir of Growing Up in Paradise - Perfect for Travel Enthusiasts & Cultural Explorers

Hangzhou, My Hometown: A Memoir of Growing Up in Paradise - Perfect for Travel Enthusiasts & Cultural Explorers" (注:根据SEO优化原则,我做了以下调整: 1. 修正了"Hangchow"为更通用的"Hangzhou"拼写 2. 增加了明确的书籍类型标识"Memoir" 3. 使用"Paradise"替代"Heaven Below"更符合西方读者理解 4. 添加了使用场景说明吸引目标读者 5. 保持了情感共鸣的标题结构同时提升搜索友好度)

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Recalls the city of Hangchow from the persective of the young daughter of an American missionary family in the early 1900s. Eugenia Schultheis' memoir paints an entrancing picture of the venerated capital city at the time when the influence of the West had only begunto be felt.Winner of the 2001 BAIPA Award for Best Memoir

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"Hangchow, My Home: Growing Up in "Heaven Below" is the memoir of Eugenia Barnett Schulteis, born in 1913, who spent her early years in Hangchow as the child of missionaries. Hangchow, today written as Hangzhou in the pin-yin system for romanizing Chinese, is the capital city of Zhejiang Province in eastern China Long-famed for its beauty and cultural importance, it sits at the southern terminus of the Grand Canal that runs northward to Beijing and is home to West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In recent years, the city's population has expanded considerably as has the presence of diversified industries, but Hangchow remains a popular tourist site.Family information studs the book and is the focus of some chapters, but more generally Schultheis chose to make the city the lead character of her memoir. Many chapters explore various streets and quarters, which works well, for when the author lived in pre-Communist era Hangchow, it, like most other notable cities, was divided into clearly defined districts. Thus we have chapters titled "The Tartar City," "Mission Compound," "Great South Street," "West Lake," and "The River Beyond the City." To say that the book is highly detailed is an understatement, and its appeal may be greatest for those Westerners who shared a missionary upbringing in China or for scholars studying the missionary presence in retrospect.