Ava is in Shanghai for the launch of the PÖ clothing line. She has invited Xu, and over the course of the glitzy event and a late-night dinner, she detects a certain hesitancy in him. He confides that the Tsai family, headed by Tsai...
China--Shanghai
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Author:Hamilton, IanSummary: -
Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:The seventh novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava getting caught up in the election for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies.Ava steps into her new business with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda. On a trip to Shanghai, Ava...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Nazi-occupied Vienna and the persecution of Jewish families like theirs. Shanghai is a strange place for a young European girl, but it is one of the few places in...
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Author:Sanders, ShellySummary:It is 1904, and Rachel and her family are leaving Russia to escape the continuing riots against Jews. They take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the country and board a ship to Shanghai. Life is difficult and strange in this new city,...
- Author:Woo, X. L.Summary:
Written in a literary, narrative style, the book gives readers a picture of Chinese society and the country as it evolved beyond recognition in one lifetime. A few details suffice to give the flavor of life under Japanese rule in...
- Author:Chen, YingSummary:
A Shanghai, deux jeunes gens, Yuan et Sassa, sont amoureux. Mais parce qu'il se sent étranger dans son propre pays, Yuan choisit un jour de venir s'établir à Montréal. Sassa, qui se refuse à voir dans l'exil un remède au mal de vivre,...
- Author:Zia, HelenSummary:
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.
“A true page-turner...
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Author:Voticky, AnkaSummary:As Hitler’s army swept into Czechoslovakia in 1939, Anka Voticky, a twenty-five-year-old mother of two, her husband, Arnold, and her family fled halfway around the world to an unlikely refuge—the Chinese port of Shanghai. Estranged from...
- Author:Rotenberg, DavidSummary:
On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor, bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his...
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Author:Kwan, KevinSummary:Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged...
- Author:Tan, AmySummary:
Au début du XXe siècle à Shanghai, la petite Violet, une enfant au caractère bien affirmé, grandit dans la maison de courtisanes la plus distinguée de Shanghai, un lieu de rencontres tenu par sa mère. Lorsque la situation politique du...
