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Old Shanghai

Old Shanghai( )
Author: Wei, Betty Peh-T'i
Series title:Images of Asia Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-585747-4
Publication Date:Feb 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $23.95
Book 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 well as 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....
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: History / Asia / China
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.9 x 19.6 x 1 cm
Book Weight:0.2 Kilograms



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