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Shanghai Girls
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 2010 book by Lisa See.In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, full of great wealth and glamour, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. 21-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives, thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business. Both are beautiful, modern, and living the carefree life… until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides.Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of south China and across the Pacific to the foreign shores of America. In Los Angeles, they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with their stranger husbands, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life, even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown's old ways and rules. A sequel, Dreams of Joy, was published in 2011 about Joy's travel to China.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Vern's toy boats. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Pearl and May, big time. They start out as two frivolous models who think because they're beautiful and well-off, nothing can ever touch them. Then their father reveals he gambled their fortune away. Then the Japanese attack Shanghai... | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Pearl gets brutally gang-raped by Japanese soldiers. | |
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Citizenship Marriage | |
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Citizenship Marriage: In a way. Pearl, May and their mother had planned to get to Hong Kong and live with their father's family, but after being attacked by Japanese soldiers they decide to go to America and live with their husbands. | |
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Culture Clash | |
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Culture Clash: Joy with Pearl and Sam as she gets older. When Pearl and May first come to America. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Pearl and May with Old Man Louie's sons, Sam and Vern. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Z.G. He turns out to be Joy's biological father. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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An Immigrant's Tale / int_561ec21f | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish / int_561ec21f | |
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Citizenship Marriage / int_561ec21f | |
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Double In-Law Marriage / int_561ec21f | |
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Eats Babies / int_561ec21f | |
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Fake Pregnancy / int_561ec21f | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo / int_561ec21f | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage / int_561ec21f | |
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier / int_561ec21f | |
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Immigrant Patriotism / int_561ec21f | |
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Never Given a Name / int_561ec21f | |
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No Party Like a Donner Party / int_561ec21f | |
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Red China / int_561ec21f | |
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Red Scare / int_561ec21f | |
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