Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City by Stella Dong

Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City

Stella Dong

336 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 w...

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