Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are naive girls living in Shanghai in 1937. They care about fashion and fun more than family and tradition, posing for artists who paint portraits for the ...

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 ...

VCG. The 2025 Shanghai Marathon kicked off on Sunday morning at the Bund Bull in Shanghai, where 23,000 runners from around the world began their journey ...

Even after the Exclusion Act was overturned in 1943, the legacy of paper sons continued. For my book, "Shanghai Girls," I interviewed people about the U.S. government's "confession program," which ...

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," ...

To call Lisa See a versatile writer would be to understate the case. She’s best known for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005) and Peony in Love (2007), best-selling novels set in China’s past. But ...

Lisa See describes the lives of Chinese girls who move to Los Angeles during the World War II era in her new novel, Shanghai Girls. As Chinese... In Shanghai Girls, a new novel by Lisa See, sisters ...

Lisa See describes the lives of Chinese girls who move to Los Angeles during the World War II era in her new novel, Shanghai Girls. As Chinese... 'Shanghai Girls' Details A Chinese-American Odyssey ...