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China High: My Fast Times in the 010, A Beijing Memoir by ZZ
| KERRY BROWN | 01 July 2009
Never judge a book by its cover. 's CHINA HIGH: MY FAST TIMES IN THE 010, A BEIJING MEMOIR looks, from its cover, like another "fast cars, fast chicks" self-aggrandizing memoir about how much Beijing rocks these days. But while the eponymous ZZ's tale is partly about this, it is also well-written, full of well-placed irony, and contains, at its heart, a surprisingly moralistic tale of partial redemption through imprisonment.
ZZ is unusual,... [ more ]
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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
| MELANIE HO | 25 June 2009
SHANGHAI GIRLS is a moving story of two sisters whose lives are seemingly altered beyond recognition after their father sells them away to be wives of men they've never met and much less like. Worlds of riches and poverty collide: privileged lives in Shanghai and unfamiliar sacrifices in California, the lesson being that the family you're born into sometimes isn't as good as the family you make and yet blood often trumps all.... [ more ]
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