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last updated Nov 26, 2018 03:30PM
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I enjoyed this collection of short stories set in Hong Kong and Shanghai during the 30s and 40s even though I felt like I lacked some of the cultural knowledge required to understand many of their nuances. The tension between traditions of the past and growing Westernization comes across very viscerally here. Most of the stories also explore struggles connected to social constraints (particularly faced by women with a fair amount of social status) in early 20th century Chinese society. The parti
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I finally found a collection of short stories that I actually like! This was on my list for a while and I was lucky enough to read it with my Around the World book club. This read to me like the literary equivalent of a Chinese 1940's era film noir. Each of the stories was so visual and fresh. It really struck me how little I know of Chinese literature and how much more reading I have to do to get a grasp of it. This is one of the rare books where the introduction was actually my favorite part o
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Aug 22, 2018
Anna
marked it as to-read
