The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

by Bangqing Han (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $32.37

  Presents a story of desire and virtue set in the pleasure quarters of nineteenth-century Shanghai. This novel reveals a world populated by lonely souls who seek consolation amid the pleasures and decadence of Shanghai's demimonde.

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $125.94

  Considered one of the great works of Chinese fiction, this is a story of desire and virtue set in the pleasure quarters of nineteenth-century Shanghai. From beautiful sirens to lower-class prostitutes, from well-respected patrons to repugnant criminals, it reveals the romantic games of the sing-song girls.