shanghai.shanghai.shanghai

<p>shanghai.shanghai.shanghai is a novel about the culture writer and closet novelist Ge and his encounters with such people as a Bogotá pickpocket a defiant Uighur woman with borrowed baby a German naval attaché American evangelicals working the Beijing Olympics and China's first woman conductor of western classical music. Its main themes uncover the thin fabric that separates state-censorship and self-censorship and collaboration and corroboration in China's war of infinite resistance. It avoids conventional narrative techniques; instead it focuses on episodic and interconnected moments revolving in a Shanghai between its foreign-occupied 1939 state-occupied 1989 and the self-occupied present in a Möbius loop sometimes in the same sentence and uses backstory sidebars and multiple English and Chinese typefaces to maintain a fluid and cohesive story.</p>