Old Shanghai

by Betty Peh-T'i Wei

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019585747X
• ISBN13: 9780195857474
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"