Shanghai : Collision Point of Cultures 1918 / 1939.

Sergeant, Harriet. [jacket design, Peter A. Davis; jacket illustration, Zhang Tielin; photographs, Lucille Briance, William Hayter, George Stewart, Lady Chancellor, Lady Keswick, John Hillelson, Tony Rayns; reproduced artwork of Emma Bormann)

ISBN 10: 0517570254 / ISBN 13: 9780517570258

Published by New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990., 1990

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371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ;LCCN: 90-25079 ; red and green cloth in gold lettering, in pictorial jacket ; "Traces the history of the Chinese city of Shanghai between the two world wars, examining the rich social, political, and cultural complexities of the city during the period." ; FINE / FINE. Seller Inventory # 2533

Bibliographic Details

Title: Shanghai : Collision Point of Cultures 1918 ...

Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

Traces the history of the Chinese city of Shanghai between the two world wars, examining the rich social, political, and cultural complexities of the city during the period.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a spellbinding portrait of Shanghai in the 1920s and '30s, English writer Sergeant (The Old Sow in the Back Room) digs past the familiar image of a vice-ridden Westernized enclave and uncovers a city of many identities. Her Shanghai is an oasis of native artistic experiment; an unregulated refuge for international business where children worked 14-hour days; the center of China's innovative film industry; and a cosmopolitan magnet that became home to White Russian merchants and aristocrats, Japanese jazz musicians, emigre Iraqi Jews and refugees from Nazi Germany. The sprawling narrative is structured around three traumatic historical episodes: the bloodbath of 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek's troops and his former Communist allies slaughtered each other; the Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1932, which claimed 14,000 lives; and the 1937 outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. Sergeant, who has made frequent trips to the city since the end of the Cultural Revolution, interviewed dozens of current and former residents, both foreign and Chinese, and she integrates their colorful stories into her exceptionally vivid, informal chronicle. Photos.
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