shanghai.shanghai.shanghai is a novel about the culture writer and closet novelist Ge and his encounters with such people as a BogotA pickpocket, a defiant Uighur woman with borrowed baby, a German naval attachE, American evangelicals working the Beijing Olympics, and China's first woman conductor of western classical music. Its main themes uncover the thin fabric that separates state-censorship and self-censorship, and collaboration and corroboration, in China's war of infinite resistance. It avoids conventional narrative techniques; instead it focuses on episodic and interconnected...