Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai

by James Carter

Book Overview

It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China's wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393635945
• ISBN13: 9780393635942
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"