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 ...

Lisa See's novel "Shanghai Girls" is a tale of two sisters, Pearl and May. Set in 1937, the two live a life of financial security and material comfort. Yet, when Japanese bombs fall on Shanghai, the ...

In the midst of giving a tour a few years ago of places intrinsic to her books — an outing intended to give her fans more understanding of her work — Lisa See was struck with an unsettling insight of ...

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 ...

("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," ...

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