Shanghai Demimondaine

Author : Nick Hordern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888843046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Demimondaine written by Nick Hordern and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars - until her patron Edmund Toeg convinced her to leave the high class brothel where she worked. Against the backdrop of the Japanese onslaught on China, and guided by the American author Emily Hahn - the 'China Coast Correspondent for the New Yorker' - Lorraine finally put her time as a prostitute behind her. After a stint in wartime Australia as a counter-intelligence informant, Lorraine moved to England, where she was reunited with both Emily and Edmund. Shanghai Demimondaine is the story of how her friendship with Emily helped Lorraine turn her life around - and how the feisty writer mined their friendship for her bestselling books.

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ISBN 13 : 9789888843152
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Zhang Henshui
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864263
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Express written by Zhang Henshui and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stella Dong
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060934816
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai written by Stella Dong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern–day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao‘s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor. Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger–than–life character in a fantastic novel.

Author : Hong Ying
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141965320
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concubine of Shanghai written by Hong Ying and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity. Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants. Despite her unbound feet and breasts, Cassia swiftly becomes Chang's favourite mistress. He showers her with luxuries as he embarks on her sexual awakening. But Chang's world is violent and precarious, and those such as Cassia who depend on him are bound to his fate . . .

Author : Jennifer Cody Epstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393335313
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel written by Jennifer Cody Epstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of "Memoirs of a Geisha," this novel is a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.

Author : Nicole Mones
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547516177
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night in Shanghai written by Nicole Mones and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel by the author of The Last Chinese Chef, a love story between a black musician and a gangster's translator set against Shanghai's dazzling jazz age and the looming menace of World War II, and "a rich and thoroughly captivating read." (Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden)

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1400067111
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Girls written by Lisa See and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret.

Author : Karin Wieland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490966
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives written by Karin Wieland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2015 Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century’s greatest conflict. Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich’s Berlin apartment. Coming of age at the dawn of the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany’s burgeoning motion picture industry. While Dietrich’s depiction of Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel catapulted her to Hollywood stardom, Riefenstahl—who missed out on the part—insinuated herself into Hitler’s inner circle to direct groundbreaking if infamous Nazi propaganda films, like Triumph of the Will. Dietrich, who toured tirelessly with the USO, could never truly go home again; Riefenstahl could never shake her Nazi past. Acclaimed German historian Karin Wieland examines these lives within the vicious crosscurrents of a turbulent century, evoking piercing insights into "the modern era’s most difficult questions, about illusion and mass intoxication, art and truth, courage and capitulation" (New Yorker).

Author : Margaret Blair
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524679143
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Scarlet written by Margaret Blair and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai Scarlet is a riveting recreation of Old Shanghai in all its exhilaration, degradation and danger, as a talented modernist writer and sophisticated courtesan meet, intertwine their lives and attempt to keep their love alive during a time of political turmoil.