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  <title><![CDATA[The Lost Daughter of Happiness: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default-description>The Lost Daughter of Happiness is an epic and moving love story of individuals intoxicated with one another and yet repeatedly separated by prejudice and mistrust. The novel chronicles the lives of the main characters over decades against a backdrop of social turmoilthe anti-Chinese hysteria that plagued San Francisco.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1996</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Geling Yan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Narrated in a haunting voice that mulls over painful truths of the past, this is an unflinching, erotic tale of forbidden love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Fusang is a Chinese girl who is shanghaied from her village and brought to San Francisco, where she enters a seedy underworld. This boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41859921">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 15 12:28:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm trying to start writing reviews of the books I read that go beyond a length of two words.<br/><br/>On this one I really enjoyed the writing. Parts were written from the perspective of a woman - that refers to herself as a fifth-wave immigrant - directly addressing the book's main character Fus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32936423">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually love books about Chinese history but this one was just odd.  Written in an odd tense and long flowery language that was tedious at times, it did not capture my interest.  At least it went fast.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[parts of the beauty of this book is its simplicity yet complexity.  some passages never fail to go directly to my core, recalling a history that is too often forgotten and too easily ignored. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is offensive to be the particle of a nation, who was an object for discrimination for hundreds of years, unless you are really powerful. Ceiling Young is a powerful Chinese, who could analyze and judge her own nation from different perspectives with insider and outsider’s view points. Her writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7605805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This started off pretty well, I thought, with the writer speaking directly to her subject (a turn-of-the-century Chinese prostitute in San Francisco).  Bold post-modernish device, promising setting.  But then she gets more and more heavy-handed, and after a while the studiedly spare prose really sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1173067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an intense book about a Chinese prostitute named Fusang. She is kidnapped from her village in China then shipped off to San Francisco and sold to a brothel. There are two central male characters as well. Chris, a white boy who becomes obessesed with Fusang but is never able to overcome the r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15712592">more...</a>]]></body>
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