<p>Chen Miaomiao, a Shanghai teenage girl, is dumbfounded when one night she finds out that her loving mother is not a human, but a "blue person" who hails from another world. When her father begins to press for a divorce, Chen, with help from her best friend, tries to save her family from disintegrating. However, despite her endeavors and her mother’s reluctance to part from the human world, the time comes when Chen’s mother must return to her home world.<br><br>Recommended for ages 12 and up</p>

My Mother is a Fairy

Literature & Fiction

Chen Danyan

Literary

Better Link Press

Shanghai in the 1920s was undergoing massive amounts of change. With a flourishing opium trade, communism gaining a foothold and the turmoil between the foreigners, Chinese and gangsters overrunning the city, few would have considered it an appropriate time to build a landmark hotel.In The Peace Hotel: A Non-Fiction Novel, author Chen Danyan traces the history of this iconic Shanghai luxury hotel. Built by Victor Sassoon, a Jewish business tycoon whose inherited wealth came from the opium trade, the Peace Hotel came to life on a prime waterfront lot in Shanghai in 1929. Originally called the Cathay, it was the toast of Asia until WWII and the Japanese Occupation. Chen Danyan's remarkable account of the Peace Hotel covers seven tumultuous decades as this grand building, the most luxurious hotel on the Bund, witnessed the changing fortunes of families and business dynasties.From the nearly overnight loss of riches of the "indigenous capitalists" in the 1950s to the post-revolutionary times of hardship and austerity, the Peace Hotel managed to survive it all. After multiple name changes and various owners, this heritage hotel has finally become a magnificent local icon and inspiration for inquisitive scholars. Like a sleeping beauty, in 2010 the Peace Hotel was roused from slumber and modernized while remaining true to its history. From its birth in 1929 to its reincarnation as a modern hotel, The Peace Hotel: A Non-Fiction Novel tells the remarkable story of a remarkable building.

Peace Hotel: A Non-Fiction Novel

Business & Money

Industries

Shanghai Press

This book is one of the bilingual series to help you enjoy contemporary Chinese literature and other writings in their authentic, unadulterated flavor and to understand the Chinese society, culture, history, and the contemporary life of the Chinese people as you learn the language and hone your reading skills.      Chen Miaomiao, a Shanghai teenager girl, is dumfounded when one night she finds out that her loving mother is not a human, but a  blue people  who hails from another world. Adding insult to injury, the girl suddenly faces breakup of her family as her father begins to press for a divorce with her mother.  With help from her best friend, a girl of a single parent, Chen tries all means to save the family from disintegration. However, despite the girl s desperate endeavor and her mother s reluctance to part with the human world, time comes when the mother has to go back to her home world, leaving behind a memory of a childhood with a fairy mother for the young heroine.

My Mother is a Fairy: A Novel

Shanghai Book Traders

She is the daughter of Shangguan Yunzhu  the movie star in old Shanghai. Her father Yao Ke is a cultural celebrity who has studied abroad. When she is two years old, her parents divorce. She learns to hide what she thinks in the bottom of her heart while hanging a smiling face. In her childhood, she lives in clover. She is a guest performer in the movie ""Winter of Three Hairs"" and acts as the little girl of a rich family. Later, her financial recourse is almost cut off but she refuses to reveal her distress in front of her boyfriend. She regards love as pure ivory tower. She is an ordinary person in the great era but bears the fate of desolation: her mother commits suicide; her lover commits suicide; she has to send her child to others; she is arrested when sneaking out of the frontier for refugee... When life seems to become better, a car accident in West Nanjing Road freezes her life forever in the fall at the age of 31. Her name is Yao Yao. She is born in troubled times in 1944 and dies an unnatural death in 1975. With the bitter memories of survivals, the author makes the tragic past of this Shanghai woman Yao Yao become the witness of the history of Shanghai. She also makes the ordinary people's personal history become the vivid and substantial coordinates in the torrent of the great era.

The Shanghai Confidante Stories (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai literature and Art Publishing House

Her father accepts Sun Yat-sen's invitation in those days to come back to start China's first western style department store. She attends the famous McTyeire in Shanghai at the age of six. She graduates from School of Psychology in Yenching University at the age of twenty-four. Her second elder sister is good friend of Song Meiling. Her best friend in university is the granddaughter of Kang Youwei. At the age of twenty-five, she get married. Her husband is a Chinese student studying in College of Business Administration in Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the subsidies of Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program. In later years, she experiences the Pacific War and the civil war and she encounters ""Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries"", ""Movement of the  'Four Clean-ups'"" and ""Cultural Revolution"". She becomes a widow. Her house is searched and her property is confiscated. She experiences reform through labor and becomes penniless. But the suffering does not make her grudged. She can still use the aluminum pot to bake cakes with Petersburg flavor on coal ball stove. When she dies at the age of ninety, her body is donated to Shanghai Red Cross. The last gift she leaves to Shanghai is a garland of the image of ""90"" woven with her white hair.  She is called Daisy, which means daisy in English. Started with dozens of private photos of Daisy from one year old to the age of ninety, it outlines the life of the lady who still remains fragrant and clean even in the ordeal. This book elaborates how this lady who has experienced ups and downs of time represents the spirit of the city of Shanghai.

The Descendants of Royal Families in Shanghai (Chinese Edition)

One of Chen Danyan's ""Shanghai trilogy"", this book gives an illustrated description of the romances of Shanghai, bringing them across the dust of history to the present sentiment. Chen Danyan's delicate and sometimes trenchant intuition has dispassionate sensibility and also provides a jagged contrast, taking the readers to travel in Shanghai's one-hundred-year history and shuttle back and forth in Shanghai's past and present.

Shanghai Trilogy: Romances in Shanghai (Revised Edition) (Chinese Edition)

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