Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City Dong, Stella. Published by William Morrow Paperbacks () ISBN ISBN New Soft Cover Quantity: Seller: booksXpress. (Freehold, NJ, U.S.A.) Rating/5(). shanghai the rise and fall of a decadent city stella dong Shanghai - The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern–day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao‘s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed. Journalist and author Stella Dong was born in Seattle, Washington, to Chinese parents and grew up in a primarily Cantonese-speaking community. After graduating from college, she became a journalist while spending ten years researching and writing her book first book, Shanghai The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City.
Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City Stella Dong, Author William Morrow Company $ (p) ISBN Although the city was inhabited by , Chinese when the British invaded in. Stella Dong's "Shanghai The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City" is a thorough overview of China's most notorious city during its most notorious era. As Dong's text explains, Shanghai rose to prominence in the late 19th century as a treaty port. Shanghai the rise and fall of a decadent city 1st ed. by Stella Dong. 0 Ratings 2 Want to read; 0 Currently reading; "Stella Dong's biography of Shanghai explains precisely why a missionary once declared, "If God lets Shanghai endure, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah." The greatest metropolis in Asia during its heyday - from the.
For the past couple of nights I have been wandering through the streets of Shanghai with Stella Dong. Her book Shanghai, The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City (New York: William Morrow, ) has been my guidebook for wandering through the backstreets, clubs and politics of this 20th-century wonder. The city that Dong describes for the brief time it became a zone outside of everything was a place where anything was possible. Buy Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City Illustrated by Dong, Stella (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City: www.doorway.ru: Dong, Stella: Books. Shanghai: The Rise And Fall Of A Decadent City|Stella Dong, Through The Perilous Fight: From The Burning Of Washington To The Star-Spangled Banner: The Six Weeks That Saved The Nation|Steve Vogel, The Nineteenth-Century German Lied|Lorraine Gorrell, Germanic Origins - A Study In Primitive Culture.|Francis Barton Gummere.
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