Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City – A Captivating History of the Dazzling Modern-Day Babylon Before Mao's Revolution - Couverture souple

Dong, Stella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060934816 ISBN 13 : 9780060934811

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060934816
• ISBN 13: 9780060934811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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