actual people, events, and locales that figure into the narrative,
all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products
of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2009 by Lisa See
Excerpt from Dreams of Joy copyright © 2011 by Lisa See.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint
of The Random House Publishing Group, a division
of Random House, Inc., New York.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks
of Random House, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the University of California Press
for permission to reprint an excerpt from Beyond the Neon Lights:
Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
by Hanchao Lu, copyright © 1999 by the Regents of the
University of California. Reprinted by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
See, Lisa.
Shanghai girls: a novel/Lisa See.
This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming title Dreams of Joy by Lisa See. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-860-7
1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Chinese—United States—Fiction. 3. Immigrants—
United States—Fiction. 4. Family secrets—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.E3334S53 2009
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