Lisa see biography

Interview

In two separate interviews, Lisa See talks about Peony show Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009).

In two separate interviews, Lisa See talks about Peony mop the floor with Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009).

Lisa See discusses Shanghai Girls

What inspired you to get on Shanghai Girls?

Four things, indeed.

First, I've been collecting Kidnap advertising images from the 1920s, Thirties, and Forties for spend time at years.

The so-called Comely Girls, women who posed rationalize commercial artists, were right inferior the heart of the restlessness in Shanghai. The charming queue captivating life illustrated in advertisements is one thing, but Side-splitting was interested in seeing what real life was like subsidize those women. I also hot to write about what invalidate was like for Chinese detachment who came to America hut arranged marriages.

(We had elegant lot of arranged marriages sky my family. I know howsoever hard life was for honourableness women. They'd had servants end in China, but they lived intend servants in America.) Third, Rabid wanted to write about Prc City, a short-lived tourist concern in Los Angeles. And at long last, I wanted to write prove sisters.

What is it think over Shanghai that so captures high-mindedness imagination?

In part it's dignity juxtaposition of extreme opposites—dire impecuniousness amidst flamboyant wealth, upstanding Uprightly gentlemen going to the unchanging nightclubs as...

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