The History of Shanghai
Author | : George Lanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Lanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karen Smith |
Publisher | : Viking |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780670080908 |
"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.
Author | : Jeffrey N Wasserstrom |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134613733 |
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.
Author | : George Lanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Shanghai (China) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Kaufman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0735224439 |
"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.
Author | : Christian Henriot |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900438541X |
The Population of Shanghai (1865-1953) is the first systematic reconstruction of the demographic series of the population of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to 1953 based on a thorough exploration of all available population data and surveys.
Author | : Stella Dong |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0060934816 |
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.
Author | : Francis Lister Hawks Pott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Shanghai (China) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Picador USA |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250170583 |
"In the 1930s, Shanghai was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made--and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notorious of those outlaws. An ex-Navy boxing champion, he escaped from prison in the States, spotted a craze for gambling and rose to become the Slot King of Shanghai. 'Dapper' Joe Farren--a Jewish boy who fled Vienna's ghetto with a dream of dance halls--ruled the nightclubs. His chorus lines rivaled Ziegfeld's. In 1940 they bestrode the Shanghai Badlands like kings, while all around the Solitary Island was poverty, starvation and genocide. They thought they ruled Shanghai; but the city had other ideas. This is the story of their rise to power, their downfall, and the trail of destruction they left in their wake."--Jacket
Author | : James Carter |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393635945 |
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.