num_pages: 96
description: A popular history of Shanghai, focusing in particular on its golden age in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book traces the complex texture of Chinese and foreign life from Shanghai's days as a market town. Wei tells the story of gangsters, traders, and bankers, as wellas the artists, political activists, missionaries, and armies of laborers who made Shanghai one of the world's foremost business cities, and the flashpoint of political and social change in China. Asia's largest city, Shanghai pulsated with wealth sophistication and suffering, through itsinternational heyday to the communist takeover in 1949.
language: English
title: Old Shanghai
titlecomplete: Old Shanghai (Images of Asia)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Oxford University Press