The Emigrés of the Peninsula Hotel

From 1949 to 1950 my mother and her brothers and sister lived in a suite in the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong. The hotel still operates today and is known as the Grand Dame of the Far East. Their mother had brought them from Shanghai as the city fell to the communist army and my grandfather instructed my grandmother to enroll the children in school and wait until he could finalize things for himself to leave Shanghai for good. As the general manager of the largest and most prestigious department store in Shanghai, my grandfather had hundreds of employees to look after while the incoming Communist government took over all private businesses. It would take him nearly a year to transition out of Shanghai, meaning his family had to wait for him in Hong Kong. <a href="https://medium.com/the-narrative-arc/the-emigr%C3%A9s-of-the-peninsula-hotel-4dc522b19a8c">Click Here</a>