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Book review: ‘All The Flowers In Shanghai’ by Duncan Jepson

Seventeen-year-old Xiao Feng is more interested in walking through gardens with her grandfather than blushing around boys in 1930s Shanghai, but life changes suddenly with an unexpected death — and a new deal brokered with an influential Chinese family. Married … Continue reading

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Book review: ‘A Thread of Sky’ by Deanna Fei

China represents many things to many people: the past; the future. And for three generations of women — all searching — it may come to mean the present. After the death of her husband, Bill, Irene is cast adrift. He … Continue reading

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