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

Author: Stella Dong Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060934811 0060934816

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. Similar books: China by Edward L. Shaughnessy Fanshen by William Hinton The Terracotta Army by John Man On China by Henry Kissinger The Great Wall by John Man Restless Empire by Odd Arne Westad Empire Made Me by Robert Bickers The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence The Death of Mao by James Palmer Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan Treason by the Book by Jonathan D. Spence The Long March by Sun Shuyun China by John King Fairbank Mao's China and After by Maurice Meisner China Wakes by Nicholas D. Kristof The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery