The Fall of Shanghai: The splendor and squalor of the imperial city of trade, and the 1949 revolution that swept an era away

By Noel Barber

Book Overview

From the Dust Jacket: "The takeover, when it came, was quick, as expected. But the crushing strictness that followed was jolting. 'On May 24,' wrote one diarist, 'you could bribe everyone in Shanghai.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0698109961
• ISBN13: 9780698109964
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Coward McCann
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.