{"product_id":"shanghai-shanghai-shanghai-9780989592451","title":"shanghai.shanghai.shanghai","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alex Kuo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Redbat Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Redbat Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshanghai.shanghai.shanghai is a novel about the culture writer and closet novelist Ge and his encounters with such people as a Bogotá pickpocket, a defiant Uighur woman with borrowed baby, a German naval attaché, American evangelicals working the Beijing Olympics, and China's first woman conductor of western classical music. Its main themes uncover the thin fabric that separates state-censorship and self-censorship, and collaboration and corroboration, in China's war of infinite resistance. It avoids conventional narrative techniques; instead it focuses on episodic and interconnected moments revolving in a Shanghai between its foreign-occupied 1939, state-occupied 1989, and the self-occupied present in a Möbius loop, sometimes in the same sentence, and uses backstory sidebars and multiple English and Chinese typefaces to maintain a fluid and cohesive story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46504937685143,"sku":"9780989592451","price":2151.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780989592451.webp?v=1769192567","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shanghai-shanghai-shanghai-9780989592451","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}