On the day of her wedding, a beautiful bride named Li was to marry a man named Lu, but before the ceremony began, an old woman arrived, telling Li’s mother that the man she thought would be her son-in-law was not the actual bridegroom. Li’s mother thought the woman was talking nonsense and drove her ...
This novel chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s, when memories of the Cultural Revolution were still fresh. This period was the heyday of China’s state-run Friendship Stores, which sold Western goods and souvenirs to tourists, foreign residents, and diplomats. Nowadays, only a few of these stores remain. ...
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 ...
The following is an excerpt 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). These state-owned stores used to be quite an exotic thing in China — one of the only places where foreigners traveling ...
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