A Floating Life (‘The Shanghai Friendship Store’ — Chapter 2)
The following excerpt, Chapter 2: A Floating Life, is from the novel The Shanghai Friendship Store by Susan Ruel. It chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s (the heyday of Friendship Stores), shortly after the Cultural Revolution. These state-run Friendship Stores first appeared in China in the 1950s and initially ...
