Shanghai
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City, 1842-1949
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: March 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780688157982
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History: World; China - History; History; History - General History; China; Shanghai (China); Asia - General; 19th century; Social conditions
First sentence: In Shanghai's prime, no city in the Orient, or the world for that matter, could compare with it.
Table of contents: title: The ugly daughter rises; title: Gold in the Yangtze mud; title: City of transformations; title: Capitalists, warlords, and thieves; title: The Shanghai massacre; title: Enter the dwarf bandits; title: The lonely island; title: The ugly daughter repents