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The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Chang, Eileen;Han, Bangqing;Hung, Eva is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in positions of social authority to criminals and ambitious young men recently arrived from the country. Con

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Author

Chang, Eileen;Han, Bangqing;Hung, Eva

Publisher

Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231122689

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24