Book description
Winner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writer's Digest GRAND PRIZE
An Extraordinary Multigenerational Saga
A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a…
Why read it?
1 author picked Remembering Shanghai as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Chao’s are a mother-daughter duo who have created an absorbing, beautifully-written story.
Each scene is brought to life with well-wrought details. This time period is personally meaningful for me, as my grandparents were a well-off family in Shanghai who left everything behind to forge a new life in the U.S.
Impressively, Claire Chao strikes the perfect balance between keeping the authenticity of the Chinese names and vernacular while making the storyline clear for an English-speaking audience. I loved being transported to this long-ago world, and am glad that Remembering Shanghai has captured this time and place for posterity.
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