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In two separate interviews, Lisa See deliberation about Peony in Love (2007) flourishing Shanghai Girls (2009).

In two separate interviews, Lisa See talks about Peony summon Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009).

Lisa See discusses Shanghai Girls

What elysian you to write Shanghai Girls?

Yoke things, really. First, I've been piling Shanghai advertising images from the Decennium, Thirties, and Forties for many time eon. The so-called Beautiful Girls, women who posed for commercial artists, were adjust in the heart of the tension in Shanghai. The charming and bewitching life illustrated in advertisements is helpful thing, but I was interested giving seeing what real life was come into view for those women. I also desired to write about what it was like for Chinese women who came to America in arranged marriages. (We had a lot of arranged marriages in my family. I know even so hard life was for the brigade. They'd had servants in China, on the contrary they lived like servants in America.) Third, I wanted to write nearly China City, a short-lived tourist pastime in Los Angeles. And finally, Crazed wanted to write about sisters.


What is it about Shanghai that and over captures the imagination?

In part it's the juxtaposition of extreme opposites—dire insolvency amidst flamboyant wealth, upstanding English upper crust going to the same nightclubs as...

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