Bookshelf: HOMESEEKING by Karissa Chen
Love, the Vicissitudes of History and the Shanghai Diaspora One of the most compelling ways of telling history is through its impact on individual lives, and that’s what Karissa Chen does so beautifully in Homeseeking, her debut novel. At one level, Homeseeking is a story about childhood sweethearts across a ...
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The Shanghai Foreigners’ Cemetery
Every year on Tomb-Sweeping Day or Qingming 清明, Chinese honor their ancestors by cleaning their graves and leaving offerings. But the graves in the Shanghai Foreigners’ Cemetery remain quiet. The staff, bless them, meticulously clean and maintain the graves, leaving a single carnation on each one. But there are no ...
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Girl Reporters: The Newswomen of Old Shanghai
The ranks of the foreign journalists of Old Shanghai were mostly filled by hard-bitten men, but by the 1920s, some of the city’s best and most interesting correspondents were women, or as they were known then, “girl reporters”. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a changing world, these women were the first ...
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