{"id":42450,"date":"2015-08-30T02:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42450"},"modified":"2018-03-31T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T22:57:25","slug":"looking-for-my-shanghai-father%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42450","title":{"rendered":"Looking for my Shanghai father\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for my Shanghai father<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BBC News Magazine<\/a>
\n2015-08-25<\/p>\n

Jody-Lan Castle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nYvonne Foley with her mother Grace<\/small><\/p>\n

After World War Two<\/a> ended, the British government forcibly repatriated hundreds of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy. Their sudden departure had a devastating effect on families left behind, like that of Yvonne Foley.<\/em><\/p>\n

“You’re just like your father,” Yvonne’s mother exclaimed, “always arguing, trying to change the world.”<\/p>\n

The nine-year-old was confused. That sounded nothing like her father.<\/p>\n

“I mean your Shanghai<\/a> father,” her mother insisted.<\/p>\n

Who? Yvonne was momentarily baffled, but then put it to the back of her mind.<\/p>\n

Two years later, in 1957, the subject came up again. This time her mother, Grace, wanted to tell her more.<\/p>\n

The man Yvonne had been calling “Dad” was not her biological father. Instead her birth father was Nan Young, a Chinese ship engineer her mother had met in Liverpool<\/a> in 1943…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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