Shanghai Dancing

{{Short description|Book by Brian Castro}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Shanghai Dancing | image = File:Shanghai Dancing.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Brian Castro | country = Australia | language = English | genre = | publisher = Giramondo Publishing | release_date = 2003 | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 447 | isbn = 0957831188 | oclc= | preceded_by = Stepper | followed_by = The Garden Book }}

'''''Shanghai Dancing''''' is a 2003 novel by Australian novelist Brian Castro.<ref>{{cite web|title= ''Shanghai Dancing'' by Brian Castro|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2361271 |access-date= 6 June 2025}}</ref>

==Plot summary==

The novel's main character is, like the author, named Castro, living in Australia and hailing from a Chinese and Portuguese background. Antonio Castro is attempting to come to an understanding of his complicated family history, and in particular, about the lives of his parents in Shanghai during the 1930s.

==Notes==

Epigraph:

* Author note: 'Shanghai Dancing is a fictional autobiography. Told from an Australian perspective and loosely based on my family's life in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macau from the 1930s to the 1960s.' * Epigraph: We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. (Franz Kafka) * Dedication: For B. B.

==Reviews== * ''The Sydney Morning Herald''<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/28/1048653839250.html''The Sydney Morning Herald'', "Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro" by James Ley, 29 March 2003]</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

* 2003 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize * 2004 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Award for Innovation in Writing * 2004 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction<ref name="NSWPLA2004">{{cite web|title="Shanghai surprise" |date= 18 May 2004|publisher= Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2004|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/shanghai-surprise-20040518-gdiy2l.html|access-date= 16 January 2025}}</ref> * 2004 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Book of the Year<ref name="NSWPLA2004" /> * 2005 longlisted International Dublin Literary Award

== References == {{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shanghai Dancing}} Category:2003 Australian novels Category:2003 English-language novels Category:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction–winning works Category:Novels set in Shanghai Category:Giramondo Publishing books