The Concubine of Shanghai - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241950678 ISBN 13: 9780241950678

Publisher: Viking, 1605

Synopsis

Sold by her aunt in 1907 as a maid to a brothel, 16-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a client, Power Chang, the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, she becomes his favourite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters.

About this title

About the Author:

Hong Ying was born into a sailor's family in Chongqing on the Yangtze River in Southwest China. An author and poet, she began her career as a full-time writer in the early 1980s having studied creative writing at Lu Xun Creative Writing Academy and Fudan University. She is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels: K: The Art of Love (which won the Prix de Rome in 2005), The Concubine of Shanghai, Peacock Cries and Summer of Betrayal. Her autobiography, Daughter of the River, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and many of her works have been turned into television series and films. Her latest memoir, Good Children of the Flowers, a sequel to Daughter of the River, won Asia Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year Award 2009. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter.

Review:

A brilliant and sensitive writer -- Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans A fascinating, full-blooded yarn which has the reader rooting for its heroine, a kind of Chinese Moll Flanders, every inch of the way * Independent on Sunday * A beautiful and gripping writer -- Tariq Ali * Independent *

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1605
• ISBN 10: 0241950678
• ISBN 13: 9780241950678
• Binding: Paperback