In Shanghai Girls, a new novel by Lisa See, sisters May and Pearl Chin glide around Shanghai in rickshaws wearing gorgeous, tightfitting silk dresses. It's 1937, just before the Japanese invaded China ...
Southern Californian Lisa See's "Shanghai Girls," a meticulously researched novel about two young Chinese women who flee Shanghai in the late 1930s. Southern Californian Lisa See is touring the ...
American literature is full of immigration stories. Less common are stories of new Americans returning to countries they or their parents left behind, often at great expense and risk. "Dreams of Joy," ...
("Shanghai Girls" by Lisa See, Random House, $25). If you're looking for one of those wonderful "take me someplace exotic and unfamiliar" books for summer, you won't do better than "Shanghai Girls," ...