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Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789622098022 |
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Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book – 400 Million Customers – that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom. Among Crow's exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War, he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, coordinating US policies to support China against Japan. The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years. This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period, and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there.
Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1101580380 |
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Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author | : N. Hudson Moore |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1434477274 |
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A history and study of old English china.
Author | : Chan Kei Thong |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310292387 |
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Finding God in Ancient China is a sweeping historical, cultural, and linguistic tour through the history of China that seeks to connect the God of the Bible with ancient Chinese language, traditions, and rituals.
Author | : William C. Hunter |
Publisher | : London : K. Paul, Trench |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carl Crow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0710312121 |
Download Four Hundred Million Customers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"No matter what you may be selling, your business in China should be enormous, if the Chinese who should buy your goods would only do so." But will they? Carl Crow opened the first western advertising agency in Shanghai and ran it for twenty-five years, promoting everything from American lipsticks and moisturizers to French brandy and pharmaceuticals, and nothing was straightforward. In this highly readable account of his work in Shanghai, illustrated with delightful line drawings, Crow uses anecdotes and examples to illustrate the particular challenges of doing business in China.
Author | : Jialin Luo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Tea |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Yijie Zhuang |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789291232 |
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24 Hours in Ancient China brings the everyday actions of ancient Chinese Han citizens vividly to life.
Author | : David Kidd |
Publisher | : Eland Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Peking Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
Author | : Michael Meyer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2010-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802779123 |
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Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.