Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels by Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao

Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels

Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao

274 pages first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative fast-paced
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Outstanding Memoir winner and Book of the Year, second place, awarded by the Independent Author NetworkA high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40...

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informative 84%
emotional 69%
reflective 61%
inspiring 23%
adventurous 15%
hopeful 7%
sad 7%

Pace

medium 76%
fast 23%

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4.01

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