???? (License Plate Number One) by Jennie Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

旧上海的故事中至今流传着""""一号汽车""""的美谈。""""地皮大王""""周纯卿不肯出卖他的汽车和主权，宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。此书以""""一号汽车周家""""五代家史为主线，金枝玉叶嫁入豪门的悲喜为主题，花园洋房、公馆旧址的残迹作地图，在破砖碎瓦之中寻根问祖，拼凑解析，反思上海开阜以来一百多年的国难家运，发现历史的真谛。十九世纪六十年代，""""周半仙""""的子孙走出浙江古镇，来到上海，开拓新天地。娶了""""九斤姑娘""""的老三周莲塘，背了一个木匠篮子，在租界上租地造屋，打造民宅，设立了上海最早的房地产公司-《周莲记》，经营租赁和洋务，飞黄腾达。到了二十世纪，周家富二代面对洋人、军阀、官僚、恶霸、警察、日寇、强权、枪炮的势力，树大招风，只得通过联姻，保护本土资产。富三代、富四代的""""上海大小姐""""在摩登时代自由独立的个性却也打不破民国婚姻的枷锁。女婿们传统的仕途经济、忠君爱国、精英才华在铁蹄之下均逃不过""""一号汽车""""的命运。从二十年代的歌舞升平，三十年代的战火纷飞，四十年代的分崩离析，五十年代的公私合营，六十年代的扫地出门，七十年代的阴盛阳衰，至中美重新建交，家人团聚，再分遗产......周家的兴亡深刻地展现了财富与传承、经济与政治、性别与传统、金钱与感情、自由与责任，东方与西方之间难解难分，不可调和的矛盾。A Real Estate Barron in Old Shanghai, Pure Gentleman Zhou, inherited an automobile with a license plate """"001"""" from a Denmark physician, leaving Shanghai on the eve of WWI. A British colonist's ambition to own that car met with his resistance. The legend became a local pride in Old Shanghai, revived recently. Beginning with a bride in that car, horses and tricycles behind, guards and police aside, slowly moving from the British Concession to the French Concession, Zhou saved his car from destruction. A granddaughter born from that wedlock tells the stories of unhappy marriages inside exquisite gardens and grand mansionsi. She is | ???? (License Plate Number One) by Jennie Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters