2 Novels by Vivian Yang
Requirements: EPUB Reader, Shanghai Girl 330 kB., Memoirs of a Eurasian 470 kB.
Overview: Publishers Weekly describes Vivian Yang’s latest novel Memoirs of a Eurasian as “an engaging exploration of a world unknown to most Westerners. Yang navigates Hong Kong and the insular Chinese world of Shanghai with equal ease, convincingly charting the protagonist’s life from childhood to adolescence and adulthood,” ending with “Readers will find this fascinating novel very enjoyable and readable.”
Of Shanghai Girl, Vivian’s critically acclaimed debut novel, JADE Magazine writes: “From the streets of old Shanghai to a feast of monkey brains, Yang scripts scenarios that readers may otherwise never experience for themselves.” Born and raised in Shanghai where she taught English and journalism in a university in her early twenties, Vivian writes passionately about her beloved city, drawing on first-hand experiences, knowledge, and insight that only a native can possess.
Genre: Fiction/Historical
Shanghai Girl
In the post-Cultural Revolution Shanghai of 1984, university senior Sha-fei Hong longs to study in the U.S. for graduate school, ostensibly to pursue the American Dream, but partly to escape her sexually-harassing Communist cadre stepfather. She meets the visiting Chinese-American businessman Gordon Lou, who has political ambitions and ties to the Chinatown underworld in the U.S. He takes Sha-fei to the American Consulate in Shanghai to look into studying in America. There, Sha-fei meets the intern Edward Cook, a young, Caucasian American lawyer who has a strong preference for all things Asian. Within a year, these three people of entirely different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds cross paths in New York. Value systems and self-interests clash. The curtain falls on a dramatic stage of ambition, sex, intrigue, and murder.
Memoirs of a Eurasian
In Shanghai’s French Concession in 1944, a young Russian fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution from his homeland falls in love with a local teenager. She dies giving birth to a girl without his knowledge, and he is expelled from China along with most other Westerners following the Communist takeover in 1949. The daughter grows up to be a piano instructor and becomes an unwed mother herself in 1962. Her daughter Mo Mo, whose father remains a mystery to all but her reticent mother, is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. But she is a rare Eurasian in a politically radical and culturally homogenous society. We enter her bleak yet fascinating world cloaked to the West where Eurasian appearances are a double-edged sword, cherished and fetishized simultaneously.As the plot of this evocative novel twists and turns through the lost glorious days of the old Shanghai, the Sino-Soviet ideological split of the 1950s, the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the economic reform that ensued in China, the bubble years in the 1980s Japan, and the 20th century Russian and Chinese immigration, a captivating story of one girl’s courageous journey of overcoming extraordinary racial and socio-political circumstances unfolds …
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