Remembering shanghai: a memoir of socialites, scholars and scoundrels - isabel sun chao

Chao, Claire: - Isabels daughter, Claire Chao , spent much of her youth seeking connections to her parents homeland.

After thirty years in management with companies such as Tiffany & Co.

, Harry Winston and Hill & Knowlton, she spent a decade creating Remembering Shanghai , uncovering an uncanny link with the grandfather she never met.

She has been designated one of Avenue magazines 500 Most Influential Asian Americans and Tatler Hong Kongs Whos Who in Hong Kong.

She graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and lives in Honolulu with her husband and two dogs.