The Painter from Shanghai

from TrishNYC

The painter from Shanghai is a fictionalized accounting of the life of the Chinese painter Pan Yuliang. The author creates a story that is both stirring and beautiful and paints a picture of a lady whose love of art is her greatest passion. In this imagining of Pan Yuliang's life, she is orphaned...

from whitreidtan

Pan Yuliang, Chinese ex-pat artist. Have you heard of her? I hadn't either but this novel limns a fascinating and believable life for this not particularly well known historic figure. Orphaned young and raised by an opium addicted uncle, Pan Yuliang is sold into prostitution in her teens. She is ...

from Soniamarie

This was not bad. It was actually pretty good in the first half. The first half is about Pan when she is a child and her drug addict uncle sells her to a prostitution house. Pan makes a good friend and reader's will see the impact this girl friend had on the rest of Pan's life. I found the first ...

from wagner.sarah35

After finishing this book, I had to look up some of Pan Yuliang's paintings, especially her controversial nudes. I really enjoyed this novel about the life of a female Chinese painter, who was sold into prostitution as child but nevertheless managed to obtain an education and studied art in Franc...

from kambrogi

This is a fictionalized biography of the Chinese painter Pan Yuliang, about whom only the bare facts are known: she was born in 1899, orphaned, then sold into a brothel by her uncle when she was still a child. She grew up to become a brilliant artist, educated in China and then Europe, but ultima...