{"product_id":"tomorrow-in-shanghai-stories-paperback","title":"Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMay-Lee Chai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003eIn a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, \u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, May-lee Chai's latest collection \u003ci\u003eTomorrow in Shanghai\u003c\/i\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. These 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMay-lee Chai\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the American Book Award-winning story collection \u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e and ten other books. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45610586210348,"sku":"9781949467864","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/tomorrow-in-shanghai-stories-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}