shanghai (china)

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shanghai (china)

Shanghai

2005
Provides information on the Chinese city of Shanghai, including its history, people, government, geography, and lifestyle.

Shanghai passage

1990
The author's account of his childhood in Shanghai during World War II and its aftermath.

The house Baba built

an artist's childhood in China
2011
Ed Young describes his childhood home, which was built by his father in Shanghai, and reflects on his fond memories of playing in the home while guests moved in to seek safety from the war affecting China.

Anya's war

2011
Anya Rosen moves with her family from Odessa to Shanghai in order to escape religious persecution from Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, but after Anya discovers a newborn baby abandoned in the middle of the street and her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, Anya fears that there is no safe place for her family.

The dragon's village

1981
In Shanghai, 1949, a seventeen-year old girl, Ling-ling, struggles to become a soldier and a teacher to help reform the Chinese countryside.

When we were orphans

2001
Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

Dragon of seas

Book 4 of the Century Quartet
2012
Sheng, Elettra, Harvey, and Mistral meet in Shanghai to find the Pearl of the Sea Dragon relic and complete the pact before Heremit Devil can stop them.

Empire of the sun

a novel
2005
Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy living in Shanghai in 1941, must learn to survive on his own when he is separated from his parents and sent to a Japanese prison camp.

The valley of amazement

2013
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese, half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.

Empire of the Sun

a novel
1984
Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy, lives in Shanghai in 1941. He relates his experiences which include three years spent in Lunghus, a Japanese prison camp, before being reunited with his parents and returning to England.

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