Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China
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Using published and unpublished sources from Asia, Europe, and North America, Wei has created an impressive study of Shanghai from before its founding as a county at the beginning of the 13th century... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195838319
ISBN13:9780195838312
Release Date:March 1988
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:310 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 0.8" x 5.6"
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A Vivid Narrative of Modern Shanghai
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Betty Wei has provided a balance narrative of how Shanghai emerged from a small and enclosed port to an international city known as the Pearl of the Orient in the 1930s and later came to embraced communism in 1949. Full of anedotes of all kinds, Wei engages the reader to imagine the lives of various social and economic class and provide researched historical facts and statistics that other scholars in the field may find useful.A must read for anyone who is interested in the history of Old Shanghai but short of time.
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