Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity

by Marie-Claire Bergère

Book Overview

Shanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, eminent China scholar Marie-Claire Berg re takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the world in 1842 to narrate the city's tumultuous and unique course to the present.

Shanghai:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804749051
• ISBN13: 9780804749053
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"