shanghai (china)

In 1938, Dr. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, flees the anti-Semitic violence of Europe with his daughter only to find starvation and disease in Shanghai. Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open and protect his family from a terrible fate.

To escape the Nazis, a young Jewish boy named Marcus and his family move to Shanghai, where Marcus and his new friend Liang build a sukkah on the roof and together they celebrate Sukkot and the Chinese Moon Festival.

On the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding--when she will marry a man willing to give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia for her--a chance accident reveals who her birth father really is. She has one evening to find him, thrust into the dizzying world of Shanghai and all the splendor of the elite rich of the city, so he can attend her wedding the next day.

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretary Li, but also because he has been made an offer he can?t refuse by Gu, a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune?with no apparent strings attached? he is to translate a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai, evoking nostalgia for the ?glitter and glamour? of the 1930s. It is up to Detective Yu, Chen?s partner, to take charge of a new case. Yin, a novelist, has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Yu cannot believe that he is really the killer. As Yu looks further into Yin?s life, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how Gu has played him and how he, in turn, can play the new capitalist system.

When the wife of an important witness in an American criminal case disappears, it is up to Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau and Catherine Rohn of the United States Marshals Service to work together to find her.

A young ?national model worker,? renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his own superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career?perhaps even his life?if he wants to see justice done.

In 1938 Lily Toufar, a young Jewish girl, escapes to Shanghai to escape the Nazi party and finds a new set of challenges.

Jim is an eleven-year-old British boy living in Shanghai in 1941. The Japanese take British citizens prisoner, and Jim is separated from his parents and forced to spend the next three years in Lunghus, a Japanese prison camp.

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.

Ursula Bacon recounts the experiences she had while living in Shanghai after she and her parents escaped the terror of the Third Reich.