Beyond the Neon Lights
Subtitle: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780520243781
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Social history; 20th century; Sociology - General; Reference; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; China; Asia - China; General; History / General
First sentence: The writer Aldous Huxlev (1894-1963), who traveled the world extensively, exclaimed in 1926 that none of the cities he had ever seen so overwhelmingly impressed him with its teeming humanity as Shanghai.