Great reading that provides a sense of the city, from the Traveler online Ultimate Travel Library.
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Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Cheng (1995)
A harrowing but matter-of-fact account of the author’s torture and solitary confinement during the Cultural Revolution.
Shanghai Baby, by Zhou Wei Hui (2003)
This saucy tell-all, in which the heroine, twenty something Coco, searches hedonistically for her identity, was predictably banned in China, leading to increased sales and author notoriety.
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, by Han Bangqing (1892)
This novel about the opium dens and late 19th-century brothels in Shanghai has been called China’s Ulysses.
When Red is Black, by Qiu Xiaolong (2005)
The third novel in Qiu’s Inspector Chen mystery series captures disappearing communist principles against the rapidly changing backdrop of modern Shanghai.
