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."
- Shanghai Escapist
 
Shanghai Escapist is a thrilling and touching story of escape and survival under totalitarianism. Offering numerous glimpses of life in 1960s-70s China through the experiences of a young man determined to escape from the turmoil of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Shanghai Escapist, right from the get-go, raises a serious question to the reader: What would you do if caught in similar circumstances?
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- Shanghai Express: A Thirties Novel
 
In this suspenseful tale of seduction and deception, a wealthy banker is smitten by an alluring young woman while traveling aboard the express train from Beijing to Shanghai. A consummate storyteller and one of the most popular novelists of his day, Zhang Henshui sweeps us on board with them and takes us through train stations and back and forth between first, second, and third class cars, evoking the smells of this microcosm of the urban world. We see what various travelers wear; we hear their conversations; we feel the chill or the warmth of each car; we detect a trace of perfume in one, pickled vegetables and greasy meats in another. Here is popular Chinese fiction at its best. Shanghai Express was considered "entertainment" fiction and was enormously popular in the 1930s. William Lyell's sparkling translation at last allows an English-reading audience to share in the fun.
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- Shanghai Girl
 
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- Shanghai Journal: An Eyewitness Account of the Cultural Revolution
Neale Hunter was one of the few Westerners resident in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, and his book, first published in 1969, was the first full-length account of it to be written by a foreign observer. The book is based on his own first-hand experience, as well as important primary sources such as wall-posters, and is illustrated with photographs taken by the author. Neale Hunter has written a new introduction for this edition, in which he reviews events since the Cultural Revolution, and sets forth his own much-altered views of China. The introduction also contains fascinating experts from the `criticism and self-criticism session' on the book which the author underwent in Shanghai in the early 1970s.
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- The Shanghai Murders: A Mystery of Love and Ivory
 
Irresistibly exotic, this dark thriller pits love and justice against sinister agendas in fast-changing Shanghai.
Zhong Fong is the head of Shanghai's Special Investigation Unit. When Richard Fallon, a New Orleans police officer, is found in pieces scattered about an Old Shanghai alley, Fong must not only solve the homicide but also deal with it as a potential international incident that could have dire political consequences. Fong knows something is very wrong with the case when he learns reporters had details on Fallon's death before police were even on the scene. As Fong gingerly traverses the political minefields littering his investigation, he is suddenly confronted with a new inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his own wife's death years earlier.
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- The Snow Leopard of Shanghai
Sophia Oblimova and her sister Elena flee Russia during the final days of the Czar's regime, seeking refuge in corrupt Shanghai, where they must begin new, harsher lives.
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- When We Were Orphans
 
From the bestselling author of 'Remains of the Day' comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. When Christopher Banks becomes a private detective, he fulfills a lifelong ambition. However, none of his new professional chores have the force of one very personal assignment: Banks decides to return to his Shanghai birthplace to trace his parents, who disappeared when he was just a boy.
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