Synopsis:

In the period leading up to World War II, a young Chinese-American woman in Shanghai falls in love with a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto.  In San Francisco, she sees another young man who looks just like him and lures him back to Shanghai to switch his identity documents and save the man she loves.  But her feelings for the two men become conflicted, and the story takes an unexpected turn....

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Topics/Categories:

World War II Jews Shanghai Ghetto

Genre:

20th Century History, Asian-American Studies - Interest, Chinese - Chinese-American Literature, Jewish-American Fiction, Literary Fiction

Type of Work:

Novel

Purchase From:

Ji Ju Zhe 寄居者 - simplified Chinese characters
Ji Ju Zhe 寄居者 - traditional Chinese characters

Original Publish Date:

February 1, 2009

Publishing Notes:

Mainland (simplified character) edition has only ISBN 13: 9787802256149.

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