All the Flowers in Shanghai (38 page)
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Authors: Duncan Jepson
FICTION
Rice
by Su Tong
My Life as Emperor
by Su Tong
I think Su Tong is one of the world’s great living storytellers, and of his many talents, his greatest is the ease and simplicity with which he builds complex and intense relationships between his characters.
Daughter of the River
by Hong Ying
An autobiographical tale of growing up in poverty in rural China that is well crafted, dramatic, and heartfelt.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
by Yiyun Li
She is one of the strongest voices among the young Chinese writers, and she speaks to all of us. Her work is modern, haunting, and powerful.
Beijing Doll
by Chun Sue
A book that, in its style and story, tells the reader much of young Chinese women in the 1990s struggling with the differences between Mao’s generation and their own as China modernizes.
NONFICTION
I believe the three books below will best help people unfamiliar with Chinese culture understand some of the significant challenges currently facing Chinese society. While the contents of the books are important, how they and the authors were received and treated is also worth further investigation.
The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis
of Chinese Culture
by Bo Yang
Will the Boat Sink the Water:
The Life of China’s Peasants
by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
by Xin Ran
DUNCAN JEPSON
is the award-winning director and producer of five feature films. He has also produced documentaries for Discovery Channel Asia and National Geographic Channel. He was the editor of the Asia-based fashion magazine
West East
and is a founder and managing editor of the
Asia Literary Review
. A lawyer by profession, he lives in Hong Kong.
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This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
ALL THE FLOWERS IN SHANGHAI.
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FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jepson, Duncan.
All the flowers in Shanghai / Duncan Jepson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-208160-5
1. Young women—China—Shanghai—Fiction. 2. Arranged marriage—Fiction. 3. Shanghai (China)—Fiction. 4. China—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6110.E66A79 2012
823'.92—dc22
2011012662
EPub Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780062081612
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