Project Description
CLAIRE CHAO is winner of 17 literary awards including the 2019 Rubery Prize Book of the Year, Remembering Shanghai (https://www.rememberingshanghai.com/) follows five generations from imperial China to modern-day Hong Kong. Isabel grows up in the wealthy Sun family in glamorous 1930s Shanghai. When Mao comes to power, she journeys to Hong Kong, unaware that she will never see her father again. She returns to Shanghai with her daughter Claire six decades later to confront their complex past—one they discover is filled with love and betrayal, kidnappers and concubines, glittering pleasure palaces and underworld crime bosses.