Remembering Shanghai : A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels Jennifer Ash Rudick For better or worse

For better or worse

the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of his career

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Anthony Kiedis

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Remembering Shanghai : A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels Jennifer Ash Rudick For better or worseWinner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writers Digest GRAND PRIZE An Extraordinary Multigenerational Saga. A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the