Author: George LanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The History of Shanghai
Author: George LanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
Author: James CarterPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai. It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China’s founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China’s wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation that had seen Shanghai’s rise to global prominence. But it is the racetrack that attracts the largest crowd of all. At the center of the International Settlement, the heart of Western colonization—but also of Chinese progressivism, art, commerce, cosmopolitanism, and celebrity—Champions Day unfolds, drawing tens of thousands of Chinese spectators and Europeans alike to bet on the horses. In a sharp and lively snapshot of the day’s events, James Carter recaptures the complex history of Old Shanghai. Champions Day is a kaleidoscopic portrait of city poised for revolution.
Global Shanghai, 1850–2010
Author: Jeffrey N WasserstromPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134613733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.
Shanghai
Author: Stella DongPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060934816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern–day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao‘s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor. Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger–than–life character in a fantastic novel.
The Last Kings of Shanghai
Author: Jonathan KaufmanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
The History of Shanghai
Author: George LanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shanghai (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Shanghai
Author: Karen SmithPublisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780670080908
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Unravels the origins of today's Shanghai, exploring the forces that shaped the city through rare archive photographs, images from private collections, and original commissions from the world's top contemporary photographers"--Jacket flap.
Old Shanghai
Author: Lynn PanPublisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
ISBN: 9789814351423
Category : Shanghai (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The history of Shanghai is brought to life in this work by Lynn Pan. The tumultuous events of the first half of the 20th century in China are told in this account through a number of interlocking portraits. Through their eyes, thoughts and actions, we gain a look into the unfolding of history.
A Short History of Shanghai
Author: Francis Lister Hawks PottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shanghai (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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Author: Samuel Couling