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In Search Of Old Shanghai
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Author : Lynn Pan
language : en
Publisher: Joint
Release Date : 1982
In Search Of Old Shanghai written by Lynn Pan and has been published by Joint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
In Search Of Old Shanghai
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Author : Lynn Pan
language : en
Publisher: Joint
Release Date : 1982
In Search Of Old Shanghai written by Lynn Pan and has been published by Joint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
Old Shanghai
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Author : Lynn Pan
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Old Shanghai written by Lynn Pan and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Shanghai (China) categories.
The history of Shanghai is brought to life in this work by Lynn Pan. The tumultuous events of the first half of the 20th century in China are told in this account through a number of interlocking portraits. Through their eyes, thoughts and actions, we gain a look into the unfolding of history.
City Of Devils
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Author : Paul French
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-06-28
City Of Devils written by Paul French and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with True Crime categories.
'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist 'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead 'If you love Richard Lloyd Parry and David Grann, don't miss City of Devils' Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me 1930s Shanghai could give Chicago a run for its money. In the years before the Japanese invaded, the city 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. Ruler of the clubs in that day was 'Dapper' Joe Farren - a Jewish boy who fled Vienna's ghetto with a dream of dance halls. His chorus lines rivalled Ziegfeld's and his name was in lights above the city's biggest casino. 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. Shanghai was their playground for a flickering few years, a city where for a fleeting moment even the wildest dreams seemed possible. In the vein of true crime books whose real brilliance is the recreation of a time and place, this is an impeccably researched narrative non-fiction told with superb energy and brio, as if James Ellroy had stumbled into a Shanghai cathouse.
Tales Of Old Shanghai
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Author : Graham Earnshaw
language : en
Publisher: Tales
Release Date : 2008
Tales Of Old Shanghai written by Graham Earnshaw and has been published by Tales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West and this engaging book offers a glimpse into that world through an assortment of photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, stamps, and other collectibles. Evoking different eras, this record also contains vintage advertisements, excerpts from travel guides, flyers handed out to ex-pats highlighting Shanghai’s international atmosphere, and often hilarious firsthand accounts from those who had the opportunity to live in or pass through this bustling trade port. The scrapbook format allows readers to either read from the start or flip through to any page to learn of the extraordinary layers and depth of the old-world city.
The Old Shanghai A Z
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Author : Paul French
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
The Old Shanghai A Z written by Paul French and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Travel categories.
This richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its best-known avenues. A definitive index to the street names of Shanghai, some of which have disappeared or been removed, allows historians, researchers, tourists, and the just plain curious to navigate the city in its pre-1949 incarnations, through the former International Settlement, French Concession, and External Roads area with a detailed map and alphabetical entry for every road. The book is lavishly illustrated with old advertising, images, and postcards of the streets and businesses, the bars and nightclubs, the people and characters of old Shanghai bringing alive the city in its previous heyday as the Pearl of the Orient.The Old Shanghai A-Zshould become the standard reference work as well as being an easy-to-use guide for researchers and visitors looking to recapture the glamour and uniqueness of old Shanghai. Paul Frenchis an analyst and writer who has worked in Shanghai for many years as a founder of Access Asia. His books includeCarl Crow: A Tough Old China HandandThrough the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium War to Mao.
Night In Shanghai
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Author : Nicole Mones
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-03-04
Night In Shanghai written by Nicole Mones and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with Fiction categories.
This novel of an American musician caught up in the dangers of 1930s China is “historical fiction at its best” (Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered). In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African American expats. After being flat broke in segregated Baltimore, he is now living in a mansion with servants of his own, the toast of a city obsessed with music, money, pleasure, and power, even as it ignores the rising winds of war. Song Yuhua is refined and educated, and has been bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai’s most powerful crime boss in payment for her father’s gambling debts. Outwardly submissive, she burns with rage—and risks her life spying on her master for the Communist Party. Only when Shanghai is shattered by the Japanese invasion do Song and Thomas find their way to each other. Though their union is forbidden, neither can back down from it in the turbulent years of occupation and resistance that follow. Torn between music and survival, freedom and commitment, love and world war, they are borne on an irresistible riff of melody and improvisation to Night in Shanghai’s final, impossible choice. This stunningly researched novel that “keeps the suspense mounting until the end” not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little-known in the West (Kirkus Reviews).
Old Shanghai
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Author : Lynn Pan
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1984
Old Shanghai written by Lynn Pan and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Shanghai Reflections
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Author : Mario Gandelsonas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2002
Shanghai Reflections written by Mario Gandelsonas and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
Student projects sponsored by Princeton, Hong Kong, and Tongji universities and reviewed by critics.
Life And Death In Shanghai
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Author : Cheng Nien
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-12-14
Life And Death In Shanghai written by Cheng Nien and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.