My Shanghai Books
"Beneath the cupboard, close to hearth, lay tales of intrigue and deceit, struggle and salvation, love and lust, life and death; tales waiting patiently to enthrall, grip and tear your Shanghai heart."
- Daughter of Shanghai
 
The daughter of China's greatest classical actor, Chin grew up in cosmopolitan Shanghai; her youth saw Japanese occupation, civil war, and Communist takeover. Moving to England in 1960, she became the China doll sex symbol in The World of Suzie Wong. This memoir follows Chin through those years and to the present with her role in the film The Joy Luck Club.
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From Amazon - Daughter of Shanghai
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- Death of a Red Heroine
 
The murder of a young woman found in a canal some distance from Shanghai threatens to go unnoticed and unsolved until someone identifies her as a well-known national model worker. Chief Inspector Chen Cao, a rapidly rising detective with a penchant for Tang and Song dynasty poetry, heads the case, which has become a sudden political event. Chen's investigation finally wheedles its way past the victim's false facade and unloving neighbors to the dangerous perpetrator.
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- The Distant Land of My Father
 
Anna, the narrator of this riveting first novel, lives in a storybook world: exotic pre- World War II Shanghai, with handsome young parents, wealth, and comfort. Her father, the son of missionaries, leads a charmed and secretive life, though his greatest joy is sharing his beloved city with his only daughter. Yet when Anna and her mother flee Japanese-occupied Shanghai to return to California, he stays behind, believing his connections and a little bit of luck will keep him safe. Through Anna's memories and her father's journals we learn of his fall from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner, in a story of betrayal and reconciliation that spans two continents. The Distant Land of My Father, a breathtaking and richly lyrical debut, unfolds to reveal an enduring family love through tragic circumstances.
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- Last Plane to Shanghai
 
"The thing that got me about Shanghai in the Summer of 1948 was that nobody thought anything was going to happen. It was happening all around them and still they said nothing was going to happen. When I got off the ship that day in July, I didn't know either. I went in there trying to keep my eyes open, trying to just look for a good adventure story, because adventure stories were marketable - and because my exchequer was sadly in need of marketable writing. I should have been more knowledgeable then, about the great story of China's upheaval. But simply enough, I needed money. A woman had let me to this situation. Another woman was about to lead me into a more gratifying one." Thus begins the story of Scott Osterman and beautiful photographer Martha Shoop, whose lives become inextricably bound together when they plunged headlong into the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War. Their passionate love story is told against the background of exciting events and desperate situations in which only their devotion to each other and the cause of freedom sustained them.
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From Amazon - Last Plane to Shanghai
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