02504cam a2200373 4500 445663906 TxAuBib 20150520120000.0 081120s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008049245 9780739328255 0739328255 9781400067114 1400067111 WiMaMI TxAuBib See, Lisa. Shanghai girls : a novel / Lisa See. Shanghai girls. New York : Random House, 2009. 314 p. ; 25 cm. In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn't be more different. Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree--until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown's old ways and rules. 20110221. Sisters Fiction. Chinese United States Fiction. Immigrants United States Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Arranged marriage Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Shanghai (China) Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. California Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction.