The Old Shanghai A Z
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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.
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 : Betty Peh-Tʻi Wei
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Old Shanghai written by Betty Peh-Tʻi Wei and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
A complex mixture of traditional Chinese and foreign influences, and often the flashpoint for political and social change, Shanghai is Asia's largest city and a key financial centre. Packed with tales of traders and gangsters, artists and activists, missionaries and armies of labourers, thisconcise history focuses in particular on the period from Shanghai's heyday in the late-nineteenth century to the Communist take-over of 1949.
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.
Old Shanghai
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Author : Lynn Pan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Old Shanghai written by Lynn Pan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Shanghai (China) categories.
Old Shanghai
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Author : 吴亮
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Old Shanghai written by 吴亮 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
本书作者以散文的形式,通过老照片展开想象,能使自己的想象、思路漫步在旧上海的大街小巷之中,看到旧上海的风土人情,知晓一些一代老上海人的文化生活。
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.
Old Shanghai Clubs Associations
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Author : Nenad Djordjevic
language : en
Publisher: Earnshaw Books Limited
Release Date : 2009
Old Shanghai Clubs Associations written by Nenad Djordjevic and has been published by Earnshaw Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Filled with details on the diverse foreign city of old Shanghai, this unique work paints a portrait of old Shanghai's social life from the 1840s and beyond, With information on more than 2,000 foreign and Chinese clubs, societies, and associations--in addition to their members--this remarkable resource offers insight into a vitally important and much-neglected part of China's modern history. A CD-ROM with additional materials is also included.
A Last Look Revisited
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Author : Tess Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Last Look Revisited written by Tess Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
Carl Crow A Tough Old China Hand
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Author : Paul French
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Carl Crow A Tough Old China Hand 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 2006-10-01 with History categories.
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book – 400 Million Customers – that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom. Among Crow's exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War, he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, coordinating US policies to support China against Japan. The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years. This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period, and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there.