Description or summary of the book: 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.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 15H12M47S
Other categories, genre or collection: Cultural Studies, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Asian History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
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