Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis

Book Overview

Shanghai is Asia's largest city and for over a hundred years has played a critical role both in China's internal political arid economic affairs, and in the history of international relations in the Far East. Before 1949, Shanghai was the principal point of western and, later, Japanese penetrations of China. Under foreign control the city saw the beginnings of modern economic growth, of new forms of westernized education and culture, and of fierce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521032075
• ISBN13: 9780521032070
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"