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Chasing The Dragon In Shanghai
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Author : John D. Meehan
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-10-20
Chasing The Dragon In Shanghai written by John D. Meehan and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with Political Science categories.
Canadians share a long history with China. Canada is home to a large Chinese diaspora, it appointed a trade commissioner to Shanghai over a century ago, and it was one of the first Western nations to recognize the People’s Republic of China. This absorbing account of Canadian sojourners in Shanghai, from the arrival of Lord Elgin in 1858 to the closing of the consulate general in 1952, gives a human face to that history. Some Canadians came to save souls, nourish bodies, and educate minds; others sought financial and political gain. Their experiences – which unfolded against a backdrop of civil war, invasion, and revolution in China and were coloured by Canada’s evolution from colony to nation – reflected Canada’s deepening relationship with China and the troubling asymmetries that underpinned it. Although Canadians, like other foreigners, had left Shanghai by the early 1950s, their lives and activities foreshadowed more recent Canadian initiatives in that city, and in China more generally.
Chasing The Dragon
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Author : Roy Rowan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008-04-04
Chasing The Dragon written by Roy Rowan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-04 with categories.
The Azure Dragon
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Author : Arthur Van Alstyne
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-10-06
The Azure Dragon written by Arthur Van Alstyne and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-06 with Fiction categories.
SHANGHAI 1928 Wes Ford, a young newspaperman, has come to the Shanghai in search of his sister and her husband who have been kidnapped. The summer of 1928 is a time of turbulence and ferment in China, as Chiang Kai-shek moves with his troops on the capital of China. It is a time when the Azure Dragon dominates the land. China is a country in which the nationalists, communists, warlords, missionaries, and reformers vie with one another for the hearts of its people. In the midst of this turmoil, Wes proceeds to mount a rescue operation. He is aided in this endeavor by a number of people many of whom have their own secret and sometimes sinister reasons for helping. Those offering to aid him range from members of Shanghai's elite society to members of Shanghai's vicious underworld. Among these would-be helpers are Ian Royal, an American movie producer and wealthy scion of an oil company, and his mistress Valerie Atwood, Detective Sergeant Shen Ming-dao, a member of the Shanghai Metropolitan police, and his young and spirited sister Yu-yan, who brings romance into the life of Wes. While attempting the rescue Wes also crosses the path of Shanghai's gangster, Tu Yueh-sen, head of the infamous Green Gang. An expertly written historical adventure story.
The Tragedy Of Liberation
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Tragedy Of Liberation written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with History categories.
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.
The Dragon S Village
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Author : Yuan-tsung Chen
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books
Release Date : 1980
The Dragon S Village written by Yuan-tsung Chen and has been published by New York : Pantheon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Fiction categories.
Within the political and societal context of the Chinese Revolution,an idealistic teenager abancond her family to work for the establishment of the People's Republic.
Underground Asia
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Author : Tim Harper
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Underground Asia written by Tim Harper and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with History categories.
A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First World War and especially the Bolshevik Revolution, which sparked utopian visions of a free and communist world order led by the peoples of Asia. Aided by the new technologies of cheap printing presses and international travel, they built clandestine webs of resistance from imperial capitals to the front lines of insurgency that stretched from Calcutta and Bombay to Batavia, Hanoi, and Shanghai. Tim Harper takes us into the heart of this shadowy world by following the interconnected lives of the most remarkable of these Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists, including the Bengali radical M. N. Roy, the iconic Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, and the enigmatic Indonesian communist Tan Malaka. He recreates the extraordinary milieu of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, and conspiracies in which they worked. He shows how they fought with subterfuge, violence, and persuasion, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of imperial authorities. Undergound Asia shows for the first time how Asia’s national liberation movements crucially depended on global action. And it reveals how the consequences of the revolutionaries’ struggle, for better or worse, shape Asia’s destiny to this day.
Chasing The Dragon
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Author : Ray Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-07
Chasing The Dragon written by Ray Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-07 with categories.
The experiences of an Australian businessman who went to work in China in 1988, over a 29 year period.
World Film Locations Shanghai
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Author : John Berra
language : en
Publisher: Intellect Books
Release Date : 2014-01-01
World Film Locations Shanghai written by John Berra and has been published by Intellect Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Celebrating Shanghai’s rich cinematic history, the films covered here represent a lengthy time period, from the first Golden Age of Chinese Cinema in the 1930s to the city’s status as an international production hub in 2013. Given the enduring status of Shanghai as the 'Paris of the East,' World Film Locations: Shanghai emphasizes the city’s cosmopolitan glamour through locations that are steeped in cinematic exoticism, while also probing the reality behind the image by investigating its backstreets and residential zones. To facilitate this study of Shanghai’s dual identity through reference to film locations, the book includes films from both the commercial and independent sectors, with a balance between images captured by local filmmakers and the visions of Western directors who have also utilized the city for their projects. With numerous essays that reflect Shanghai’s relationship to film and scene reviews of such iconic titles as Street Angel, Temptress Moon, Kung Fu Hustle, and Skyfall, World Film Locations: Shanghai is essential reading for all scholars of China’s urban culture.
Drugs Of Abuse The International Scene
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Author : Mangai Natarajan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Drugs Of Abuse The International Scene written by Mangai Natarajan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Law categories.
Globalization and attendant modernization has increased both the supply and the demand for drugs around the world. Drug abuse is no longer the concern of only the developed world. Countries without histories of drug use, particularly developing countries, are now reporting problems of abuse because they have become transit points for international drug trafficking. Because the problem is now worldwide, a global strategy is needed for identifying, analyzing and developing strategies to deal with drug abuse and the associated problems for health and safety. This volume reviews the international status of drug abuse. Specific topics covered include drug abuse in the developing world, emerging drugs and poly drug use; gateway drugs, cultural views of drug use and state of the art methodologies employed in research on drug abuse.
Chasing The Dragon
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Author : Roy Rowan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Chasing The Dragon written by Roy Rowan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with China categories.
In 1949 the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, and Eastern Europe had arranged itself into a constellation of communist satellite states, when China - the world's most populous nation - succumbed to what seemed to be an insurmountable tide of Communist successes. Dumbfounded, America wanted to know, "Who lost China?" Roy Rowan was one of only two living American journalists who covered the fall of China, and in Chasing the Dragon, he recounts his personal experiences during one of modern history's most tumultuous and significant events. Writing for Life magazine from such datelines as Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang, Taiyuan, and China's Gettysburg--Xuzhou--he watched the horror and spectacle of the world's oldest continuous civilization tear itself apart as Chair-man Mao Zedong's ragtag army saturated the Chinese countryside, choked off major industrial cities, and waited for them to "fall like ripe melons." With the fall of each city, Rowan had to plan an emergency evacuation by whatever means possible. Through Rowan's personal interviews and experiences we meet colorful characters such as "Big Ears Du," the crime boss of Shanghai's infamous Green Gang; "the Generalissimo" and his wife Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose dulcet tones of flawless Wellesley English belied her cool ruthlessness; the irrepressible Claire Chennault of "Flying Tiger" fame; and a personal acquaintance with Zhou Enlai, who would become China's premier under Mao Zedong. In the decades since, Rowan has traveled back to each battlefield, and has covered China for America's premier magazines. Chasing the Dragon is his fascinating firsthand account of the tumultuous events that still continue to shape our world.