My Good Fortune: Memoir of a Chinese Orphan's Success in America

Orphaned as a child, Lu Chi Fa survived brutality and starvation in China during and after World War II. Once sold for two sacks of rice, in 1951 he fled to Hong Kong and Taiwan for a better life and immigrated to the United States in 1969. He and Becky White told that story in Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan; in 2001 it won the Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Award.

This book adds details about Lu Chi Fa’s early life in China and Taiwan, and follows his quest to create good fortun...