The Last Kings of Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Kings of Shanghai write by Jonathan Kaufman. This book was released on 2021-06-01. The Last Kings of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai write by Bangqing Han. This book was released on 2005. The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Courtesans, desire & the denizens of the Shanghai underworld are just some of the elements in Han Bangqing's novel of late imperial China, published in 1892 & now available in English for the first time.
Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Last Boat Out of Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Boat Out of Shanghai write by Helen Zia. This book was released on 2019. Last Boat Out of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution--a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have opened the story to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves the story of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S. Young Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father's dark wartime legacy, must choose between escaping Hong Kong or navigating the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome young exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation in order to continue his studies in the U.S. while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America"--
City of Devils
City of Devils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Devils write by Paul French. This book was released on 2018-07-03. City of Devils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the 1930s, Shanghai was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made--and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notorious of those outlaws. An ex-Navy boxing champion, he escaped from prison in the States, spotted a craze for gambling and rose to become the Slot King of Shanghai. 'Dapper' Joe Farren--a Jewish boy who fled Vienna's ghetto with a dream of dance halls--ruled the nightclubs. His chorus lines rivaled Ziegfeld's. In 1940 they bestrode the Shanghai Badlands like kings, while all around the Solitary Island was poverty, starvation and genocide. They thought they ruled Shanghai; but the city had other ideas. This is the story of their rise to power, their downfall, and the trail of destruction they left in their wake."--Jacket
Life and Death in Shanghai
Life and Death in Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life and Death in Shanghai write by Cheng Nien. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Life and Death in Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
