Shanghai Rise and Fall of a Decacent City 1842-1949

Informationen zum Autor Journalist Stella Dong has written for the New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, and Harper's Bazaar. A first-generation Chinese American, she grew up in Seattle and now lives in New York City. This is her first book. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dong Stella, Stella Dong
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 22.05.2001
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780060934811
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093481-1
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions (packing): 13.6 x 20.2 x 2.2 cm
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