Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of the Decadent City 1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City - Brossura

Dong, Stella

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060934816 ISBN 13: 9780060934811

Casa editrice: Avon A, 2001

Riassunto

Recounts the history of Shanghai, a main point of contact between China and the outside world, and a place with great contrasts, ruled by gangsters and the birthplace of the Communist Party in China. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that pre-dated 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. As insightful and scholarly as it is detailed and gripping, Shanghai is a "brilliant tableau of creative energy and decadent humanity" (Seattle Times).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Avon A
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060934816
• ISBN 13: 9780060934811
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352