Lust, Caution and Other Stories

by Eileen Chang

In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime.

Jiazhi's life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin's bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141034386
• ISBN13: 9780141034386
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"