AustLit

'Of all the stories Jane Hutcheon has encountered as an ABC journalist, China correspondent, war zone reporter and author, one has intrigued her more than any other: that of her mother Beatrice’s turbulent childhood in pre-Communist Shanghai.

'Visiting Shanghai in 2018, Jane began to search for the truth of her mother’s difficult beginnings. Lost in Shanghai is the result, a story of an ordinary Eurasian family in extraordinary times, set against a backdrop of fading colonial opulence, civil war and revolution.

'Using projected images from the family archive curated by photographer-storyteller William Yang, and music composed and performed by Dr Terumi Narushima, Jane narrates this moving true story in her own words.'

Source: Sydney Festival.