Shanghai Girl: An Excerpt

JADE Magazine's description: "Shanghai Girl is a delicious tale of cross-cultural adjustment, personal ambition, and self-discovery,
peppered with steamy sex, ruthless exploitation, and mysterious murder. As the novel unfolds through three personalized narratives
(made all the more frank by the use of slang, intense scrutiny of situations, and even sexist remarks), we follow the lives of Sha-Fei
Hong, a young, abused Chinese student; Gordon Lou, a wealthy American Chinese with "insider" trade relations; and Edward Cook, a
Caucasian lawyer whose "Asian fever" almost stains the pages with a trail of mercury."

Summary: In the post-Cultural Revolution Shanghai of 1984, university senior Sha-fei Hong longs to study in America for graduate school, ostensibly to pursue the American Dream, but partly to escape her sexually-harassing Communist cadre stepfather. She meets the visiting Chinese-American businessman Gordon Lou, who has political ambitions and ties to the Chinatown underworld in the U.S. He takes Sha-fei to the American Consulate in Shanghai to look into studying in America. There, Sha-fei meets the intern Edward Cook, a young, Caucasian American lawyer who has a strong preference for all things Asian. Within a year, these three people of entirely different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds cross paths in New York. Value systems and self-interests clash. The curtain falls on a dramatic stage of ambition, sex, intrigue, and murder...
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