num_pages: 336
description: Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao′s cultural revolution was a city like no 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.
language: English
title: Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949
titlecomplete: Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949
genres: Asian Literature, History, Asia, Nonfiction, China
ratings_count: 344
publisher: Perennial