Shanghai Narrative
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Shanghai Narrative
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Author : Hai Yu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-14
Shanghai Narrative written by Hai Yu and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Social Science categories.
This book focuses on urban development in Shanghai over the past four decades, which is composed of two major development processes—the development of new spaces and the renewal of old ones. Seeking to bring the concept of space back into social analysis, the book explores changes affecting communities, interpersonal interactions, lifestyles and social mindsets in Shanghai from a spatial perspective. What’s more, all these social themes are presented using a narrative of spatial representation and spatialization. The book combines both academic and documentary-style contributions. It also provides cutting-edge research on the most representative case in Shanghai. As the book demonstrates, the story of social spaces in Shanghai is more than a combination of social analysis and spatial analysis but also involves historical analysis and contemporary narrative.
Shanghai Yesterday
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Author : Alexa Kang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Shanghai Yesterday written by Alexa Kang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with categories.
When the twilight dims and the Jewel of the Orient fades, will truth and justice rise again? Will the dreams of yesteryear return to restore all that was withered and lost? A lone city, desperate to remain free. All around, war rages. The Kuomintang has fled, and the eyes of the world have turned away as Europe crumbles. Surrounding the city borders, the Empire of Japan lurks, waiting for its chance to stake its claim on Asia's last bright gem. In a final bid to protect his home, Clark Yuan allies with Shanghai's colonial lords, leveraging their facade of might to keep Japan's army at bay. Covertly, he joins forces with the Chinese secret police, waging a deadly war of resistance against enemies and traitors alike. Will he succeed? When darkness falls and all hope is gone, what can one man do to save the ones he loves? * For Eden Levine, the risk comes close to home when an agent of Japan seeks to make her a pawn to cover their heinous acts in a web of lies. With Shanghai left as the sole voice of freedom, the tyrants of Occupied China unleash a reign of terror to silence those who dare to speak. Defying the threat, she takes up a guise to continue her work. Along the way, she meets Alex Mitchell, the daredevil radio news reporter on a one-man crusade to expose to the world the horrors in the East. Their hunt for truth brings them closer than she expected. But as his pursuit of justice brings him to the brink, can she follow him to the end when her heart beckons her to take a different path? "In times of war, love is a luxury we can't afford." - - - From the author of the Rose of Anzio series, this final volume of the Shanghai Story trilogy brings you a front-row view on how the curtains closed on the world's most decadent city during WWII.
Building Shanghai
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Author : Edward Denison
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-12-20
Building Shanghai written by Edward Denison and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-20 with Architecture categories.
Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary architecture interwoven in a compelling narrative that unlocks the many mysteries surrounding this amazing metropolis. Some of the most influential colonial architecture in the world, outstanding examples of Modernism and Art Deco, and an exceptional selection of eclectic and vernacular architecture reflecting Shanghai's many adopted cultures are revealed. This is the first book ever to examine this remarkable subject in a manner that is both comprehensive and captivating in its written content and stunningly illustrated with over 300 archive and contemporary photographs and maps.
Years Of Red Dust
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Author : Qiu Xiaolong
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2011-11-08
Years Of Red Dust written by Qiu Xiaolong and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with Fiction categories.
Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty years—from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late nineties—all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square—history, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.
Telling Images Of China
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Author : Shane McCausland
language : en
Publisher: Editions Scala
Release Date : 2010
Telling Images Of China written by Shane McCausland and has been published by Editions Scala this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
Each of the 35 narrative and figure paintings selected from the Shanghai Museum and featured in this exquisite book, retell a story from Chinese legend, folklore or history. Album leaf, fan, handscroll and hanging-scroll paintings demonstrate the dynamic
New Shanghai
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Author : Pamela Yatsko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
New Shanghai written by Pamela Yatsko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Weaving anecdotes with analysis, author Pamela Yatsko's lively narrative addresses key aspects of the city's rebirth: the building spree of the 1990s; Shanghai's resurrection as a financial center; its drive to remain a manufacturing powerhouse; its cultural reawakening; the growing divide between rich and poor; the return of fortune-hunting foreign business; and the revival of notorious Old Shanghai vices: nightlife, drugs and prostitution. The author breaks through the hype surrounding Shanghai's re-emergence to present a realistic picture of the legendary city and the challenges it faces fulfilling its aspirations. New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City is a work of exceptional richness and observation.
Yankee On The Yangtze
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Author : WILLIAM EDGAR. GEIL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Yankee On The Yangtze written by WILLIAM EDGAR. GEIL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Last Boat Out Of Shanghai
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Author : Helen Zia
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2019-01-22
Last Boat Out Of Shanghai written by Helen Zia and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with History categories.
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. “A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that happens to real people.”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa See NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival. Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by extension, today. “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side.”—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
The Back Blocks Of China
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Author : Robert Logan Jack
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1969
The Back Blocks Of China written by Robert Logan Jack and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with China categories.
Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai
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Author : Alex Kuo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-11-01
Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai written by Alex Kuo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with categories.
shanghai.shanghai.shanghai is a novel about the culture writer and closet novelist Ge and his encounters with such people as a Bogota pickpocket, a defiant Uighur woman with borrowed baby, a German naval attache, American evangelicals working the Beijing Olympics, and China s first woman conductor of western classical music. Its main themes uncover the thin fabric that separates state-censorship and self-censorship, and collaboration and corroboration, in China s war of infinite resistance. It avoids conventional narrative techniques; instead it focuses on episodic and interconnected moments revolving in a Shanghai between its foreign-occupied 1939, state-occupied 1989, and the self-occupied present in a Mobius loop, sometimes in the same sentence, and uses backstory sidebars and multiple English and Chinese typefaces to maintain a fluid and cohesive story."