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Shanghai. The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City

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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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Shanghai. The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City, Stella Dong

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2001
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Title
Shanghai. The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City
Language
English
Released
2001
Format
Paperback
Pages
336
ISBN10
0060934816
ISBN13
9780060934811
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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.