{"product_id":"tomorrow-in-shanghai-stories","title":"Tomorrow In Shanghai Stories","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, May-lee Chai’s latest collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomorrow in Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality—always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai''s stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313258373502,"sku":"NW9781949467864","price":12.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781949467864.jpg?v=1778591714","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/tomorrow-in-shanghai-stories","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}