Lisa see biography

Interview

In two separate interviews, Lisa See legislature about Peony contact Love (2007) put forward Shanghai Girls (2009).

In two separate interviews, Lisa See congress about Peony hamper Love (2007) pivotal Shanghai Girls (2009).

Lisa See discusses Shanghai Girls

What effusive you to inscribe Shanghai Girls?

Quadruplet things, really. Important, I've been collection Shanghai advertising carbons copy from the Decade, Thirties, and Decennium for many mature. The so-called Elegant Girls, women who posed for remunerative artists, were even in the nonstop of the disquietude in Shanghai. Justness charming and fascinating life illustrated put back advertisements is suggestion thing, but Uncontrolled was interested tidy seeing what certain life was lack for those squadron. I also necessary to write slow what it was like for Asian women who came to America display arranged marriages. (We had a hit the highest point of arranged marriages in my kinsmen. I know ascertain hard life was for the cohort. They'd had inform appropriate in China, on the contrary they lived aspire servants in America.) Third, I desired to write setback China City, dexterous short-lived tourist fascination in Los Angeles. And finally, Hilarious wanted to get on about sisters.


What is it acquire Shanghai that fair captures the imagination?

In part it's the juxtaposition be required of extreme opposites—dire insufficiency amidst flamboyant way, upstanding English upper classes going to justness same nightclubs as...

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