Something true: San Francisco is a place of reinvention. Breaching the peninsula comes with the ability to abandon who you were across the bay, across the ocean, across t he world. For Mei Xiang, the ...
In the whirlwind flashback of Vanessa Hua’s novel “Forbidden City,” 15-year-old Mei is whisked away from her rural village in 1965 to Mao Zedong’s sumptuous residence in Beijing, taught some of the ...
Author and journalist Vanessa Hua spoke to NextShark about her forthcoming third novel, “Forbidden City,” researching the Cultural Revolution and the gaps in history that fiction helps to fill.