Old Shanghai (Images of Asia) [Hardcover]

Betty Peh-T'i Wei (Author)

Book Description

Series: Images of Asia | Publication Date: July 1, 1993

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 political and social change in China. Asia's largest city, Shanghai pulsated with wealth sophistication and suffering, through its international heyday to the communist takeover in 1949.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`This book offers a brief introduction to the city for the non-specialist reader and, like other books in "The Images of Asia" series, is very well-illustrated.' Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie

About the Author

Betty Peh T'i Wei is Honorary Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Hong Kong.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019585747X
• ISBN-13: 978-0195857474
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,319,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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