[PDF.71pv] Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949

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

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 | #547770 in Books |  Dong, Stella |  2001-05-22 |  2001-05-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.76 x5.31l,.64 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Decadent pleasures|By Jay Dickson|Stella Dong's bid to enter the ever-burgeoning world of "lite" cultural histories of important world cities (such as the city studies of Jan Morris) is nothing if not entertaining, and her account of life in the "Old Shanghai" from between the Opium War and the Communist Revolution moves along with a wealth of all sorts of interesting social ti|.com |For a good, spicy read about colonial Asia's most decadent city, this is the book. Stella Dong, a second-generation Chinese-American living in New York, tells the story of Old Shanghai in racy style: readers expecting tales of drugs, prostitution, and gan

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.

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