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5 reviews
Syd Goldsmith

iUniverse, Inc., 2006

Rivetting!
This is one of those novels that you had better not pick up unless the kids are fed and you don't mind staying up all night! In other words, it's one of those rare novels that is so engrossing that you may find the rest of your life flying by--but you don't really care. Syd Goldsmith is one of those exceedingly talented writers who can utterly transport you into another time and place, and in the ...

New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City

18 reviews
Pamela Yatsko

Wiley, 2004

New Shanghai
I found "New Shanghai" not long ago as I was preparing to visit Shanghai after six years in the states, and was attracted to it immediately. Having lived in Shanghai most of my life, I have to say that the author knows about Shanghai better than I do. I'm only familiar with the life of my like, but the book has a broad coverage, from the upper class to the cultural underdogs. In particular, I ...

After Shanghai

4 reviews
Alison McLeay

Macmillan, 1995

"After Shanghai" is remarkably compelling!
As a reader of many novels, I cannot help but get excited when I finish the last sentance on the last page, close the book and feel that my life is somewhat more enriched by the experience of what I just read. "After Shanghai" by Alison McLeay achieves this remarkable sensation. This historical family saga revolves aound Clio - a woman of English descent born in Shanghai, 1910. Upon her ...

My Shanghai: Through Tastes & Memories

5 reviews
Sandy Lam

Times Editions, 2004

Wonderful Memoir, Excellent Photos
i admit upfront that i'm a devoted fan of Sandy, and i had a lot of expectation for this book. i'm glad it actually surpassed my expectations. it's a relaxing experience to follow Sandy back in time through her vivid descriptions. i can share her childhood memoirs about shanghainese food because of our similar background. Sandy's book is no ordinary cookbook; it is unique because it fushions ...

My Middle Name is Israel: A Wartime Memoir of Berlin, London and Shanghai

4 reviews
Hans Ludwig Riess

1st Books Library, 2001

A unique micro-history of the Second World War
Hans Riess' autobiographic account is a remarkable story of how the rise of Nazism impacted the "assimilated" Jewish families of Berlin during the 1930s and forever changed lives thereafter. It is not a history of the Holocaust, but it is the story of the indignities suffered by those who were able to escape from Nazi Germany but nonetheless endured living upon the periphery of evil during the ...

Mah-jongg: From Shanghai to Miami Beach

8 reviews
Anita Luu, Christi Cavallaro

Chronicle Books, 2005

All you ever wanted to know about Mah Jong
"Mah Jong: From Shanghai to Miami Beach" is a wonderful little book about the history of Mah Jong. The author gives a history of the game and how it evolved into a popular game in the U.S., especially amongst Jewish women of all ages. It gave me a new appreciation of the game and made me want to get out my inherited mah jong set and call all my friends together to play. I highly recommend it ...

Phantom Shanghai

7 reviews
Greg Girard

Magenta Publishing for the Art, 2007

Must-have reading of Shanghai
This book provides the reader a clear picture, as well as insight, into what Shanghai must have looked like in the past, the effects of the passage of time on its society and how it describes its resulting present-day reality. The accompanying narrative sets a deeper understanding of the well-laid out and stunning photographs of featured buildings, structures, places, and other vestiges ...

Insight Compact Guide Shanghai (Insight Compact Guides Shanghai)

5 reviews
Sharon Owyang

Langenscheidt Publishers, 1999

Surprisingly accurate, informative, non-patronizing
I live in Shanghai, and usually write guidebooks, not read them. When I do, it's usually to wince at all the things the writers who came here for a mere month or so of research got wrong. Even those without glaring errors tend to be off by angle, such as raving about the rather dull Yu Gardens and failing to notice the incredible living history museum, Shanghai's Old City (aka Chinatown), that it ...

Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas

11 reviews
Gillian Kendall

University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

An expat ESL teacher loves this book but, doesn't care for chicken feet either!
I spent the academic year of 1999/2000 teaching English in Shenzhen. I spoke no Chinese, at the time, and had no formal teaching experience. So I could definitely relate to Gillian's frustrations, culture shock, and malentendus. It's 1991 and Gillian is a grad student in Galveston, TX. The semester is coming to a close and she spies an ad on the bulletin board for an ESL teacher aboard a ship ...

Shanghai Carousel

13 reviews
Ray Chen Smith

Amazon, 2007

And a very Merry "Merry Go Round" this is indeed!
The synopsis describes an ambitious project. The lives of four people changed on one Chinese New Years. Well, why not? Dickens had one character visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. However--we begin with a history lesson: "Twenty-six centuries before the Son of God died for the sins of man, the Yellow King had invented the calendar-and then he got busy." This kind of unforgettable ...

Planet Shanghai: Architecture Family Food Fashion and Culture of China's Great Metropolis

3 reviews
Justin Guariglia

Chronicle Books, 2008

Shanghai, as it is
My images of Shanghai are in black and white, being mainly informed by classic 40's flicks like Shanghai Express and Charlie Chan In Shanghai. It seems to me to be a city lost in time, full of steam pouring from train engines and femme fatales and both danger and adventure lurking in every corner. It is certainly not a place where people live, get up, go to work, buy groceries and generally ...

Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta: From Past to Present. The New Yangzi River Trilogy, Vol. I (New Yangzi River ...

3 reviews
Eric N. Danielson

Times Edtions, 2004

Shanghai Talk Magazine Book Review
The following quotes come from a book review of Eric N. Danielson's, "Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta," which appeared in the June 2004 issue of Shanghai Talk magazine: "...Doubtless many readers have found themselves in a situation where their Lonely Planet or Frommers has left them scratching their heads-or at worst, lost in some back alley." "The thoroughness of Eric Danielson's guide to ...

Strangers Always: A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai

4 reviews
Rena Krasno

Pacific View PR, 1992

different view of the second world war
This book is the memoir of a young woman from a Russian Jewish family growing up in Shanghai during World War II. The setting is multicultural, multilingual and multiracial, and the author provides fascinating details from the history of a city that no longer exists. Shanghai had Chinese, White Russian, French, British, American, German, Iraqi and many other citizens. The author lived there under ...

Shanghai Quartet: The Crossings of Four Women of China (Emerging Writers in Creative Non-Fiction)

4 reviews
Min-Zhan Lu

Duquesne University Press, 2001

Composing possible lives
I meant to save this book for an upcoming long air flight, but after the first two pages, I couldn't put it down. Min-Zhan Lu's compelling stories of her life and that of her grandmother, nanny, and mother are much like her scholarship in composition studies: rigorous, sensitive, thought-provoking. She depicts herself and the other women in her family as devoted to crossings, travel, ...

Shanghai '37 (Oxford Paperback Reference)

3 reviews
Vicki Baum

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

This book stands the test of time.
She was reusing her successful formula but this is my favourite of her novels. Interesting description of China before the revolution. Baum deserves to be rediscovered.

Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom

3 reviews
Gus Lee

Harmony, 2003

A family in context
In this remarkable memoir, Gus Lee presents a clear and compassionate picture of his parents, grandparents and their 'clans' set in turbulent times. He brings alive the social, historical, religious and cultural context which informs their actions and reactions making them comprehensible to a reader with a totally different cultural viewpoint. It reads like a multi-generational adventure novel ...

Shanghai Blossoms Write Away Stationery

3 reviews
Galison/Mudpuppy

GMG Publishing, 2005

I love this stationary!!
This is such adorable stationary! I am so glad that I found it, I have been searching for stationary for forever, it seems that no one sells it anymore!! Curse you e-mail, you've destroyed the luxary of sending and recieving hand-written letters!! Love, love, love this stationary!!

The Bund Shanghai: China Faces West (Odyssey Guides)

3 reviews
Peter Hibbard

Odyssey, 2007

A splendid guide and history
The Bund - Shanghai's famous half-mile avenue along the Huangpu River - contains a line of fabulous monumental structures from Shanghai's dazzling colonial life of the 1920s and '30s. Despite the Western styles of architecture, the Bund is very much a part of China's history, with all that is good and bad. Peter Hibbard's book tells the richly populated story of the Bund's development from ...

Shanghai Shadows

4 reviews
Lois Ruby

Holiday House, 2006

Shanghai Shadows by Lois Ruby
For suspense and surprises, twists and turns, no one invents plots like Lois Ruby. Shanghai Shadows covers six years in the life of Ilse Shpann, her brother, Erich, and their parents - six years as "stateless refugees" in Shanghai, to which they have fled from Nazi-occuped Vienna. Amidst intensely realistic evocations of the sights, sounds, smells, and diverse population of the city, Ilse ...

Shanghai Sui

3 reviews
Kathleen McKee

Dorrance Pub Co, 2002

I couldn't put it down!
This was such a great book! Unlike most books I couldn't predict a thing. I got to know and care about the characters so much I didn't want to get to the end. I hope another from Kathleen McKee is coming!

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