This was the title of a book that I re-read during the week. It is an interesting read, based on a true story and follows the lives of two girls from Shanghai just before the second World War. Their father was fairly wealthy but then he got into debt and sold the girls (21 and 18) as wives to another Chinese american man for his sons.
It talks about "paper sons" which I had not heard of before but it was quite common apparently. The book also mentions Shao xing wine and Lu xun both are famous in China and coming from the city where we used to live, Shaoxing, although the English spelling was different.
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