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Remembering Shanghai : A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels Simon Schama from Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelite 'art ofWinner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writers Digest GRAND PRIZE An Extraordinary Multigenerational Saga. A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the