By Insight Guides, PRINT ISBN: 9781786718457 E-TEXT ISBN: 9781786712981. Forlag: Insight Guides
It's the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, and Rachel Chu should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress plucked from the best salon in Paris, and a fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that the father she never knew won't be there to walk her down the aisle ... until a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. A romp through Asia's most exclusive clubs, auction houses, and estates, China Rich Girlfriend brings us into the elite circles of Mainland China and offers an inside glimpse at what it's like to be gloriously, crazily China rich. Forlag: Anchor Books Udgivelsesår: 2016 Sider: 496 Sprog: Engelsk
Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. J.G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country’s most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, “Empire of the Sun”, in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life. “Miracles of Life” takes us from the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, to the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of Lunghua Camp, to Ballard’s arrival in a devastated Britain. Ballard recounts his first attempts at fiction and his part in the social and artistic revolutions of the 60s. He describes his friendships with figures as diverse as Kingsley Amis, Michael Moorcock and Eduardo Paolozzi alongside recollections of his domestic life in She
En Lonely Planet lomme rejseguide til Shanghai. Guiden indeholder et overblik over mad, shopping, natteliv og højdepunkter i byen, samt insidertips og kort over hvert kvarter.
The Worldwide, Mega-Selling Author Of Man And Boy Is Back With A Sizzling, Shanghai Tale Of Sex, Romance And Second Wives. Hotshot Young Lawyer Bill Holden And His Wife Becca Move With Their Four-Year-Old Daughter To The Booming, Gold-Rush City Of Shanghai, A Place Of Enormous Wealth And Crushing Poverty, Where Fortunes Are Made And Foreign Marriages Come Apart In Spectacular Fashion. Bill'S Law Firm Houses The Holden Family In Paradise Mansions, A Luxury Apartment Block Where Newly-Rich Chinese Men Install Their Second Wives: Fabulous Young Beauties Like Jinjin Li, Ex-School Teacher, Crossword Addict And The Holdens' Neighbour. After Becca Witnesses A Tragedy That Awakens Her To The Reality Of Life Beyond The Glitzy Surface Of The City, She Returns Temporarily To London With Holly And Bill And Jinjin Are Thrown Together. Bill Wants To Be A Better Man Than The Millionaire Who Keeps Jinji
Kinesiske Pan Yuliang blev som 14-årig i 1920'ernes Shanghai solgt til et bordel. To år senere blev hun konkubine for en fremsynet embedsmand og kunne udfolde sine kunstneriske evner. Trods modgang endte hun som anerkendt kunstner Titel: Maleren fra Shanghai Genre: Historisk roman Sammendrag: Historien om Pan Yuliang, der finder sin styrke og talent som kunstner i et samfund i forvandling. Type: Paperback
Studier af en eldgammel tekst har overbevist arkæolog Nina Wilde om, at en grav, der indeholder resterne af den legendariske kriger Herkules, kan eksistere. Hvis hun kan finde den, vil det være det vigtigste historiske fund, der nogensinde er gjort. Da Nina og hendes tidligere bodyguard Eddie Chase indleder deres søgen, står det hurtigt klart for dem, at andre også ønsker at finde graven – og de utrolige rigdomme, den indeholder. Nina og Chases søgen bringer dem snart ud på et spor af korruption og sammensværgelser. Fra Schweiz til Shanghai, Botswana til London, er det et kapløb med tiden for at finde Herkules' grav, før den falder i onde hænder... Type: Hardcover
Fist of Fury Skuespillere: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Maria Yi, Yin-Chieh Han Instruktør: Wei Lo Studie: Golden Harvest Resumé: Ved indgangen til en park står der ingen hunde eller kinesere! Shanghai i 1900-tallets begyndelse er en smeltedigel, der især er ved at koge over af racisme og had, når kineserne ydmyges og ignoreres af de regerende japanere. Her vender Chen (Bruce Lee) tilbage, for at deltage i begravelsen af sin skæbne lærmester fra den berømte Kung-fu skole, som han har tørnet med det meste af sit liv. Han er nød til at tæmme sit blodige hævn. Men en uge før dette længere fare sande selv sejr!
