Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949

Dong, Stella

ISBN 10: 0060934816 / ISBN 13: 9780060934811

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060934816
• ISBN 13: 9780060934811
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao′s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor.

Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel.

About the Author

Journalist Stella Dong has written for the New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, and Harper's Bazaar. A first-generation Chinese American, she grew up in Seattle and now lives in New York City. This is her first book.