Comments on: The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-painter-from-shanghai-by-jennifer-cody-epstein/ ~ Reading Is Sexy! ~A blog about life & the books in-between.... Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mytatteredpages http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-painter-from-shanghai-by-jennifer-cody-epstein/#comment-37 mytatteredpages Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:22:17 +0000 http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-37 Just FYI-- Author informed me that book is available in paperback now! See part of the email below.. ...."the book is finally out in inexpensive-but-elegant, reading-group friendly paperback! You can read about it in the New York Times Book Review "Paperback Row" roundup this Sunday, buy it on Amazon (at http://www.amazon.com/Painter-Shanghai-Jennifer-C-Epstein/dp/0393335313/ref=ed_oe_p), and at Barnes and Noble, where it will be on the Discover Great New Writers bay at the end of the month. Thanks again for your interest and support in the past; and best wishes in future blogging!" jenn Jennifer Epstein www.jennifercodyepstein.com Just FYI– Author informed me that book is available in paperback now! See part of the email below..
….”the book is finally out in inexpensive-but-elegant, reading-group friendly paperback! You can read about it in the New York Times Book Review “Paperback Row” roundup this Sunday, buy it on Amazon (at http://www.amazon.com/Painter-Shanghai-Jennifer-C-Epstein/dp/0393335313/ref=ed_oe_p), and at Barnes and Noble, where it will be on the Discover Great New Writers bay at the end of the month.
Thanks again for your interest and support in the past; and best wishes in future blogging!”
jenn

Jennifer Epstein
http://www.jennifercodyepstein.com

]]> By: mytatteredpages http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-painter-from-shanghai-by-jennifer-cody-epstein/#comment-27 mytatteredpages Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:18:52 +0000 http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-27 I welcome comments, even when they are different from my own opinions!! Thanks for your comment! I welcome comments, even when they are different from my own opinions!! Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: Sara Sheldon http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-painter-from-shanghai-by-jennifer-cody-epstein/#comment-26 Sara Sheldon Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:21:18 +0000 http://mytatteredpages.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-26 Unfortunately, this novel is yet another fictional recreation of the life of an important early Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang, whose life was first written about in a Chinese novel of 1982 by a writer who had no information whatsoever about Pan and made up a wholly lascivious, fictional story of Pan's early years prior to her study of Western art (realistic painting in oil on canvas)." A Painter from Shanghai" recreates a Chinese movie produced in 1994, taken from the original 1982 novel almost scene by scene, while adding many more gratuitous, prurient details. It may have taken Ms. Epstein 10 years to write this trash, but she did little more than repeat unproven hearsay and few real facts about the artist who was, in fact, an important artist and one of the first women artists of China to paint in the modern style. It is rather like producing a novel or sex tape about Georgia O'Keeffe in which salicious rumors replace the serious life story of an important artist. Within the next 18 months a major, serious biography of Pan Yuliang will be published. Pan's actual life, encompassing some of the most dangerous, vital years in Chinese and WWII history is far more interesting than a B movie or a 3rd rate romance novel. Unfortunately, this novel is yet another fictional recreation of the life of an important early Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang, whose life was first written about in a Chinese novel of 1982 by a writer who had no information whatsoever about Pan and made up a wholly lascivious, fictional story of Pan’s early years prior to her study of Western art (realistic painting in oil on canvas).” A Painter from Shanghai” recreates a Chinese movie produced in 1994, taken from the original 1982 novel almost scene by scene, while adding many more gratuitous, prurient details. It may have taken Ms. Epstein 10 years to write this trash, but she did little more than repeat unproven hearsay and few real facts about the artist who was, in fact, an important artist and one of the first women artists of China to paint in the modern style. It is rather like producing a novel or sex tape about Georgia O’Keeffe in which salicious rumors replace the serious life story of an important artist. Within the next 18 months a major, serious biography of Pan Yuliang will be published. Pan’s actual life, encompassing some of the most dangerous, vital years in Chinese and WWII history is far more interesting than a B movie or a 3rd rate romance novel.

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