| Murray John, London. | 1998-01 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| She was delighted to receive it and when thumbing through it said ...|By Diana Lincoln|This was a gift for my 96 yr old mother who was raised in Shanghai during this same time period. She was delighted to receive it and when thumbing through it said it looked like it would be very good.|0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent rea|From Publishers Weekly|In a spellbinding portrait of Shanghai in the 1920s and '30s, English writer Sergeant (The Old Sow in the Back Room) digs past the familiar image of a vice-ridden Westernized enclave and uncovers a city of many identities. Her Shanghai is
In the 1920s and 1930s Shanghai was called "the whore of the Orient", home to gangsters and warlords, where nightclubs never closed and hotels supplied heroin on room service. It became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and films. With its bustling population of British, Chinese, Americans, French, Germans, Japanese and White Russians, its extremes of poverty and wealth, it appeared to straddle East and West. By the time the Chinese Communist takeover of 1949...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Shanghai (French Edition) | Sergeant Harriet. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
