In Shanghai'¬"s French Concession in 1944, a young Russian fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution from his homeland falls in love with a local teenager. She dies giving birth to a girl without his knowledge, and he is expelled from China along with most other Westerners following the Communist takeover in 1949. The daughter grows up to be a piano instructor and becomes an unwed mother herself in 1962. Her daughter Mo Mo, whose father remains a mystery to all but her reticent mother, is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. But she is a rare Eurasian in a politically radical and culturally homogenous society. We enter her bleak yet fascinating world cloaked to the West where Eurasian appearances are a double-edged sword, cherished and fetishized simultaneously. As the plot of this evocative novel twists and turns through the lost glorious days of the old Shanghai, the Sino-Soviet ideological split of the 1950s, the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the economic reform that ensued in China, the bubble years in the 1980s Japan, and the 20th century Russian and Chinese immigration, a captivating story of one girl'¬"s courageous journey of overcoming extraordinary racial and socio-political circumstances unfolds '¬¦Vivian Yang (www.VivianYang.net)'s "Memoir of a Eurasian" and "Shanghai Girl" are also available on Kindle.

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