• shanghai

    Obsessing Over JG Ballard and His Terrible City

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    All images by James H. Bollen.  By Paul French James H. Bollen is a British photographer, author, and translator based …

    Istanbul and Shanghai Between the Wars – Two Sides of the Same Coin

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    By Paul French We generally think of Shanghai between the world wars as unique, a one-off city forming a crossroads …

    City of Reinvention: A Review of Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement

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    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Shanghai is a city of reinvention. The metropolis has transformed over the past two centuries from …

    The Other Shore: On Virginia Pye’s River of Dust

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    By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Virginia Pye wrote her debut novel, River of Dust, in only 28 days. But as she …