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Best fiction and non-fiction books, novels and memoirs that take place *primarily* in the city of Shanghai, China.
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 161,520 ratings
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White Shanghai (Russian Treasures #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 223 ratings
score: 600,
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6 people voted
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The Distant Land of My Father
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4.16 avg rating — 5,452 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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Tom Carter (Editor)
3.59 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Empire of the Sun
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3.98 avg rating — 22,271 ratings
score: 399,
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4 people voted
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Shanghai Nobody (Master Shanghai, #1)
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Vann Chow (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 97 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
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3.93 avg rating — 779 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 68,063 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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Dr. 2 (Issue 1)
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Peter Tieryas (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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The Painter From Shanghai
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Jennifer Cody Epstein (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,235 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
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Leta Hong Fincher (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 633 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
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3.68 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949
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3.62 avg rating — 359 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Heart of Lies
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M.L. Malcolm (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 171 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Half a Lifelong Romance
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4.07 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Shanghai
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3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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A Case of Two Cities (Inspector Chen Cao, #4)
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3.67 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 6,314 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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All the Flowers in Shanghai
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Duncan Jepson (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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Lust, Caution
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3.70 avg rating — 2,050 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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Life and Death in Shanghai
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4.33 avg rating — 13,931 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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The Mao Case (Inspector Chen Cao #6)
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3.64 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Enigma of China (Inspector Chen Cao #8)
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3.77 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
score: 189,
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2 people voted
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Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichi (Volume 33) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
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3.29 avg rating — 188 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Anastacia
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Colin Falconer (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Night in Shanghai
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Nicole Mones (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 1,250 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
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Rob Schmitz (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Death In Shanghai (Inspector Danilov #1)
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M.J. Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 780 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Ghosts of Shanghai (Ghosts of Shanghai #1)
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3.54 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
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4.31 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
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4.27 avg rating — 4,919 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Daughter of Calamity
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Rosalie M. Lin (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 611 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Dragon Land
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3.63 avg rating — 73 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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When Sleeping Women Wake
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Emma Pei Yin (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 781 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Shanghai Assignment
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Karl Andrews (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up
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4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Red Mandarin Dress (Inspector Chen Cao #5)
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3.78 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Opium Warfare
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Justin Bienvenue (Goodreads Author)
3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
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3.92 avg rating — 273 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Gangsters of Shanghai
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Gerry O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 632 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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My Forty Years as a Diplomat by Feng-Shan Ho
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2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Ching-a-ring-a-ring-ching, or, Three Victorian sisters in Shanghai
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score: 99,
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Empire Made Me
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3.93 avg rating — 111 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842–1943), Volume 1: White Man, White Law, White Gun (1842-1900)
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Douglas Clark (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 98,
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Love and Luck--A Young Woman's Journey from Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco
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Karen Levi (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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When Red is Black (Inspector Chen Cao #3)
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3.77 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Tales of Old Shanghai: The Glorious Past of China's Greatest City
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Graham Earnshaw (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Dancing Girl and the Turtle
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Karen Kao (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Song of the Jade Lily
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Kirsty Manning (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 9,404 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life
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4.21 avg rating — 62 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Great Walk of China: Travels on Foot from Shanghai to Tibet
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Graham Earnshaw (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai
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3.74 avg rating — 586 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Tea on the Great Wall: An American Girl in War-Torn China
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Patricia Luce Chapman (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954
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4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 95,
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A last look: Western architecture in old Shanghai
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 94,
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Stateless in Shanghai
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3.94 avg rating — 65 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Fu Ping: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
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3.32 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 92,
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49 voters ·
list created January 29th, 2013
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