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- Location(s): Shanghai
Communist China is a compelling setting, political intrigues, and Party dynamics, China of the 1990s – and its food, culture and people. Inspector Chen and Detective Yu are likable and rounded characters, who persue their cases their cramped living...
- Location(s): China, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps...
- Location(s): Paris, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of...
- Location(s): China, Qingdao, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1985 / 2007
A darkly glittering debut that traces a mixed family’s troubled trajectory through developing China. Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother’s engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected of importing aliens to the US, refuses to testify until...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed...
- Location(s): London, Long Island, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
The narrative unfolds through three different points of view, Oscar, Christine and Marilyn, in locations on three continents: East Hampton, Shanghai and London. A Mind of Winter is a complex, page-turning, literary psychological thriller, which takes up a rich...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the...
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