110 Shanghai Road

by Monica Highland

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553265725
• ISBN13: 9780553265729
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

American soap opera set in China

The soap opera part of this story comes from such things as romantic triangles, secret affairs, sibling rivalries and jealousies, stabbing in the back, misunderstandings. These intrigues kept me reading to find out who was going to do what to whom next, but the main draw for me was the diversity of settings and characters. The story begins with wealthy American familes and a missionary family living in China in 1926, as China enters a revolutionary period. There are conflicts among these families as well as conflict between them and the Chinese factors of that time period. One of the characters, Jordan, an American woman, flees her family to join the revolution and journeys with Mao, while her former lover finds himself in the U.S. during the McCarthy era, wondering what happened to her. Several generations of these families weave in and out of each others' lives for 60 years. The plot kept moving along at a good pace, and was quite entertaining.