The Book 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 Book of Shanghai write by Wang Anyi. This book was released on 2020-04-16. The Book of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company’s attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author’s permanent residence... As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating through the city's streets... The characters in this literary exploration of one of the world’s biggest cities are all on a mission. Whether it is responding to events around them, or following some impulse of their own, they are defined by their determination – a refusal to lose themselves in a city that might otherwise leave them anonymous, disconnected, alone. From the neglected mother whose side-hustle in collecting sellable waste becomes an obsession, to the schoolboy determined to end a long-standing feud between his family and another, these characters show a defiance that reminds us why Shanghai – despite its hurtling economic growth –remains an epicentre for individual creativity.
The Book of Shanghai
The Book 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 Book of Shanghai write by Xiao Bai. This book was released on 2020-04-16. The Book of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man's only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company's attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author's permanent residence... As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating through the city's streets... The characters in this literary exploration of one of the world's biggest cities are all on a mission. Whether it is responding to events around them, or following some impulse of their own, they are defined by their determination--a refusal to lose themselves in a city that might otherwise leave them anonymous, disconnected, and alone. From the neglected mother whose side-hustle in collecting sellable waste becomes an obsession, to the schoolboy determined to end a long-standing feud between his family and another, these characters show a defiance that reminds us why Shanghai--despite its hurtling economic growth--remains an epicentre for individual creativity.
The Last Kings of Shanghai
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.
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.
