Shanghai Splendor

Shanghai Splendor
Author: Wen-hsin Yeh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520258177


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"What a fine and illuminating book! Shanghai Splendor is an important and captivating work of scholarship."—David Strand, author of Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s "This in an outstanding work. Although Shanghai has been among the most popular subjects for scholars in modern Chinese studies, one has yet to see a project as impressive as this. Yeh tells a most fascinating story."—David Der-wei Wang, author of The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China


Shanghai Splendor
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Wen-hsin Yeh
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"What a fine and illuminating book! Shanghai Splendor is an important and captivating work of scholarship."—David Strand, author of Rickshaw Beijing: City Peo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Language: en
Pages: 452
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