Old Shanghai |
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| Author:
| Wei, Betty Peh-T'i |
| Series title: | Images of Asia Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-585747-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1993 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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A complex mixture of traditional Chinese and foreign influences, and often the flashpoint for political and social change, Shanghai is Asia's largest city and a key financial centre. Packed with tales of traders and gangsters, artists and activists, missionaries and armies of labourers, this concise history focuses in particular on the period from Shanghai's heyday in the late-nineteenth century to the Communist take-over of 1949.
A complex mixture of traditional Chinese and foreign influences, and often the flashpoint for political and social change, Shanghai is Asia's largest city and a key financial centre. Packed with tales of traders and gangsters, artists and activists, missionaries and armies of labourers, this concise history focuses in particular on the period from Shanghai's heyday in the late-nineteenth century to the Communist take-over of 1949.