A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture.

Examines the history of genocide and political persecution of the people of China.

When Soviet troops invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the last days of World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu Kimura must care for her younger sister as they struggle to survive and return to Japan.

Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.

In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.

Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.

Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her friend Meiling, is ordered to act like a proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.

In fifteenth-century China, a young orphan boy becomes the apprentice to a kind sage who is gifted in eagle boxing, a specialized form of kung fu.

When her father and sisters are threatened with being sent to the poorhouse for failing to collect a rare orchid, responsible eldest daughter Elodie Buchanan accompanies her father to China in the hope of collecting the valuable flower only to have her perspective changed by the exotic outside world.