Shanghai: Electric & Lurid City

This book collects over fifty passages of writing on Shangai, ranging from its pre-Treaty Port days to the eve of the twenty-first century. The pieces are taken from novels, biographies, letters, diaries, poems, and short stories and are illustrated with photographs and drawings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195906039
• ISBN13: 9780195906035
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent descriptions of an exotic city

I was pleasantly surprised by this anthology of collected works by Barbara Baker. It gave an beautiful, rounded, poetic description of Shanghai from 700BC-Present by various, inspired authors. A must have book due to content and styles of writing.