The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel Crossing Press finely balanced biography offers an

finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth

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The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel Crossing Press finely balanced biography offers anAuthor: Epstein, Jennifer Cody Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 416 Release Date: 17 03 2008 Details: Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post Impressionist. Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a