"To understand what the world's going to be like tomorrow, you have to understand China today. And to understand today's China, you have to know what her greatest city—Shanghai—was like yesterday. Shanghai Grand is a passport to the International Settlement of the 1930s, a time when the foreign-controlled city was the crucible for all the ideologies—western colonialism and Chinese communism, authoritarianism and nationalism, free-market capitalism and globalization—that forged Asian history in the twentieth century, and whose legacy is making history in the twenty-first.--"
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ISBN:9781443425537
Physical Description:xv, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm regular print
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