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Shanghai, pullulating with vice, luxury and crime and combining extremes of wealth and poverty, exercised an insidious and irresistible lure on travellers in the inter-war years. The seething polyglot city, inhabited by a host of European and American emigres, where heroin was available on hotel room service, and gangsterism was rife, is recreated in this book, using the reminiscences of the scattered remnants of those who populated it at the height of its notoriety.
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This portrait of the city will captivate you with its vivacity and Shanghai you with its sureness of touch (Mail on Sunday)
A vivid portrait of Shanghai in its prime (J. G. Ballard)
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A vivid portrait of Shanghai in its prime (J. G. Ballard)
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. This portrait of the city in its heyday combines first-hand accounts with extensive research and reconstruction.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0224028162
- ISBN 13 9780224028165
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- Number of pages371
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