Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Shanghai is a city of transformations and revolutions.... In the decades since she left in 1966, the city has transformed dramatically, but the smells and views of the ultramodern megalopolis it is today continue to fire my senses and feed my imagination.... To read the literature of Shanghai is to be caught in this city’s past and future: all its ever-expanding mystery, intrigue, excess and abundance. What books sho