Highlights the history, culture, and comtemporary life of Shanghai and offers detailed walking and biking tours and complete visitor information.
Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are: Shanghai girls.
With its unique focus, this book will enlighten policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and anyone interested in China and its increasingly fraught relations with the United States.
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub.
A compelling account of the rebirth of China's greatest city. Earmarked by China's leaders to again become an international business hub, Shanghai, in less than a decade, has blossomed from...
This is Shanghai is a first hand account of expat life in China's (and the world's) largest city.
This is also the story of the survival of a majestic and resilient city that suffers with dignity the humiliations of shortages, the ravages of epidemics, the conflict of political ideologies, and refuses to be conquered by desecrations of ...
Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps.
The detailed biographies of Russian immigrants who served Russian Regiment, Shanghai Volunteer Corps, in 1930s-1940s. Includes police background investigation reports on applicants, and the alphabetical index in Russian language.
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À la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’exil tragique d'un couple uni par sa passion du cinéma.