Title: Shanghai Station
Description: Set on the streets of Shanghai in the first decades of the twentieth century, this novel of revolution stirs together Soviet agents, Cossacks, French policemen, Mao, and an American woman who calls herself Jesse James.
Subjects: History, Revenge, Fiction, Chiang, kai-shek, 1887-1975, China, politics and government, China, history, 20th century
Places: China, Shanghai (China)
Time periods: Warlord period, 1916-1928