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Images of Asia Ser.: Old Shanghai by Betty Peh-T'I Wei (1993, Hardcover)

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Product 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 Shanghais 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 worlds foremost business cities and the flashpoint of political and social change in China Asias largest city Shanghai pulsated with wealth sophistication and suffering through its international heyday to the communist takeover in 1949