List of fiction set in Shanghai
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Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
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- The Blue LotusThe Blue LotusThe Blue Lotus , first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It is a sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh, with Tintin continuing his struggle against a major gang of drug...
by HergéHergéGeorges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also... - "That Summer in Shanghai" by Bob de Vries
- Shanghai GirlsShanghai GirlsShanghai Girls is a novel by Lisa See. In an important sense, it returns to the beginning of her major writing career. After publishing three murder mysteries largely set in China and then following them up with two in-depth studies of the struggles of Chinese women in the 19th and 17th centuries...
by Lisa SeeLisa SeeLisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her Chinese-American family has had a great impact on her life and work. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family and the novels Flower Net , The Interior , Dragon Bones , Snow Flower and the... - Shanghai KissShanghai KissShanghai Kiss is a 2007 direct-to-DVD romantic drama comedy. The film was released on DVD on October 9, 2007.Hayden Panettiere won the Feature Film Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival for her role as Adelaide.- Synopsis :...
by Kern Konwiser and David Ren - Empire of the SunEmpire of the SunEmpire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time" , it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II...
by J. G. BallardJ. G. BallardJames Graham Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction... - Love in a Fallen City, a collection of short-stories by Eileen ChangEileen ChangEileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....
, Karen S. Kingsbury translator - ShanghaiShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
by Christopher NewChristopher NewChristopher New founded the philosophy department at The University of Hong Kong in 1969 where he taught for a number of years before leaving. He is the author of the historical novel series The China Coast Trilogy, which spans most of the twentieth century and deals with the British presence in... - Shanghai by William Leonard MarshallWilliam Leonard MarshallWilliam Marshall is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series....
- Death of a Red HeroineDeath of a Red HeroineDeath of a Red Heroine is a mystery novel written by Qiu Xiaolong and published in English in the year 2000.-Plot summary:One afternoon, the naked body of a young woman is found wrapped in a black trash bag in an obscure canal in Shanghai by two friends...
by Qiu XiaolongQiu XiaolongQiu Xiaolong is an English language poet, literary translator, crime novelist, critic, and academic, currently living in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Wang Lijun and daughter Julia Qiu. He originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S... - Shanghai: a novel by Yokomitsu RiichiYokomitsu Riichiwas an experimental, modernist Japanese writer.Yokomitsu began publishing in dōjinshi such as Machi and Tō after entering Waseda University in 1916. In 1923, he published Nichirin , Hae and more in the magazine Bungeishunjū, which made his name popular...
(Translated with a postscript by Dennis Washburn) - Shanghai Baby: A Novel by Wei HuiWei HuiZhou Weihui is a Chinese writer, living and working in Shanghai and New York. Her novel Shanghai Baby was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title...
- Shanghai Tango by William OvergardWilliam OvergardWilliam Overgard , was an American cartoonist and writer with a diverse opus, including novels, screenplays, animation, and the comic strips Steve Roper and Mike Nomad and Rudy. For a picture, see his biography card at ....
- Shibumi by TrevanianTrevanianRodney William Whitaker was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker also published works as Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran...
- The Diamond AgeThe Diamond AgeThe Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction bildungsroman, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of...
by Neal StephensonNeal StephensonNeal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk... - The House Of Memory - A Novel Of Shanghai by Nicholas R. Clifford
- The Immortals: a Novel of Shanghai by Natasha Peters
- The Painter of Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
- The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing (translated by Eileen ChangEileen ChangEileen Chang was a Chinese writer. Her most famous works include Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City....
) - When We Were OrphansWhen We Were OrphansWhen We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000 . It is loosely categorised as a detective novel...
by Kazuo IshiguroKazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing... - Shanghai Dancing by Brian CastroBrian CastroBrian Albert Castro is an Australian novelist and essayist.-Biography:Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He is of Portuguese, Chinese, and English descent. Currently he is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide....
- Man's FateMan's FateMan's Fate is a 1933 novel written by André Malraux about the failed communist insurrection in Shanghai in 1927, and the existential quandaries facing a diverse group of people associated with the revolution...
by Andre MalrauxAndré MalrauxAndré Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt... - The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang AnyiWang AnyiWang Anyi is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan, and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised...
- The Concubine of Shanghai by Hong YingHong YingHong Ying was born in Chongqing on September 21, 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories.After brief periods of...
- The Master of Rain by Tom Bradby
- Song of the ExileSong of the ExileSong of the Exile is a 1990 Hong Kong-Taiwanese film directed by Ann Hui. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
by Kiana DavenportKiana DavenportKiana Davenport is an American author of part-Hawaiian ancestry. She is the author of critically acclaimed novels Shark Dialogues and Song of the Exile, both of which explore aspects of life as a Polynesian in Western society. Her most recent novel was the bestselling House of Many Gods... - El judío de Shanghai by Emilio Calderón
- Shanghai hotel by Vicki BaumVicki BaumHedwig Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel , one of her first international successes....
- A Circle Has No Endby Tony Henderson