Shanghai
Subtitle: China's gateway to modernity
By: Marie-Claire Bergère ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804749046; 9780804749053
Subjects: Shanghai (China) -- History; China -- History -- 19th century; China -- History -- 20th century
Work titles: Histoire de Shanghai.
Notes: "Originally published in French under the title Histoire de Shanghai, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreigners in the town (1843-1853); title: Local diplomacy and national policy (1853-1864); title: The birth of Shanghai capitalism (1860-1911); title: The kaleidoscope of Shanghaian society; title: The model represented by the concessions; title: The 1911 revolution; title: The metropolis (1912-1937); title: The golden age of Shanghaian capitalism (1919-1937); title: The revolutionary centre (1919-1937); title: Order and crime (1927-1937); title: Haipai and the ideal of modernity; title: The end of a world (1937-1952); title: The war, the occupation, and the end of international status; title: Backward into revolution (1945-1952); title: Shanghai under communism; title: Shanghai in disgrace under the Maoist regime; title: Shanghai's rebirth (1990-2000).