Shanghai Girls

Lisa See's previous work highlights the lives of Chinese women from the 17th century to the present. Her latest novel, "Shanghai Girl", opened in Shanghai in 1937 and then moved to the USA where she concentrated her unique point of view on the poverty and prejudice of Chinese-Americans experienced until the late 1950s It was.

Pearl and Machin, 21 and 18, were working in Shanghai when their lives were eradicated dramatically: their father's gambling debt forced him to sell to a Central American husband Did. As they are planning to avoid this unacceptable fate, Japanese bombs began to fall in Shanghai; when they tried to escape, the pearls were cruelly raped and hospitalized by soldiers.

They continued to suffer unhappily even after their sisters landed on Angel Island (the "Ellis Island in the West") which had been interrogated for several months. "China lost to Japanese, pregnant in May, there is no money or family." As the only formal married woman, Pearl will be using May as Joy's mother. The baby went to Los Angeles just before birth to see her husband. A savvy view on this big family's struggle and actual historical events: they tried to distinguish themselves as being foreigners during wartime, their foresight when the Red Army advanced China

Among her remarkable family stories, See pours her in-law's mother into her "Chineses" like her "just like the taste of ginger penetrated into soup" ancient tradition against her role We emphasize the importance. Pearl responded most strongly when Joey returned from her first college era to say that her family is "wrong and backward" in 1956, and May acclimatize to Los Angeles Hollywood It was very easy. But at the end of the novel, Mei told Pearl, "Whenever our hair is white, we still have our sister's love."

Seeing the latest news and satisfying so many levels first confirmed the ties of unbreakable families.

Of course, some of the most popular Western novels about China such as Lisa See's "Shanghai Girls" series are past, and it is complicated but at least static. Amy Tan, author of "Happy Games" (1989) and "Bone Daughter" (2001), often writes about the 1949 Chinese revolutionary generation women and their descendants of American immigrants. Chinese novelists are facing further challenges in censorship of the people. Murong Xuecun, author of "Leave One Alone" (2002), once wrote a boring life for young people in Chinese cities such as Chengdu, but hit including social media bans. Shanghai-born novelist Chan Koonchung set the theme of The Fat Years (2009) in the future, but it has not been announced in China.

Old Shanghai is famous for girls and ladies who sing at night. In the 1920s, an estimated 3 million prostitutes worked in Shanghai. One missionary called Shanghai "apology of God to Sodom and Gomorrah" and another missionary called it "Oriental prostitute". In the 1930's, famous German director Joseph von Sternberg visited Shanghai. In his movie "Blue Angels", Marlene Dietrich's most famous phrase is "There are multiple people who changed my name to Shanghai Lily".

Wuxi is different from Shanghai. In places where there are many foreigners in Shanghai, Wuxi does not appear to be very diverse. This means people like these girls, but they also selfies with us. This also made me realize that I need to practice Chinese more. One or two of my word phrases actually did not cut it. As I leave Shanghai, more and more people speak English, and more people will be referring to English. Why is it so difficult to learn a second language? I am amazing for everyone who speaks multiple languages. Go ahead!

Shanghai is the center of China's highway network. G2 Beijing-Shanghai Expressway (overlapping G42 Shanghai - Chengdu), G15 Shenyang - Haikou, G40 Shanghai - Xi'an, G50 Shanghai - Chongqing, G60 Shanghai - Kunming and many other national highways (with G) in Shanghai Pass or end (overlapping G92 Shanghai - Ningbo) and G1501 Shanghai annular highway. In addition, there are many municipal expressways prefixed with S (S1, S2, S20 etc). In Shanghai there is a bridge tunnel crossing the mouth of the Yangtze River across the north of the city.