Abstract
Lisa See is a Chinese American writer who gives a realistic picture of the state of Chinese women in her novels. Her novel Shanghai Girls (2009) has two sisters, Pearl and May as its protagonists, who go through great pain and suffering in patriarchal China, leave war-torn Shanghai, and try to change themselves to the difficult roles of wives in arranged marriages and as Chinese immigrants in the U.S. This paper bring out the patriarchal practices that were prevalent in China like of foot-binding, women being sold out in the name of marriage, gender-discrimination and women as victims of violence, as sieen in the novel.
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