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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World

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 | #112049 in Books |  2016-06-14 |  2016-06-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.72 x1.53 x6.48l,.0 | File type: PDF | 480 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Absolutely fascinating view of Shanghai in the Thirties--a real page-turner!|By Carl Ian Schwartz|This is a beautifully-written account of Shanghai in the 1930s, of a cosmopolitan city caught between political and geopolitical forces, including the Englishman of Iraqi-Jewish background who built the Cathay Hotel and other modern buildings, an American writer originally from St.| ||"A love song to 1930s Shanghai. Taras Grescoe has fallen hard for the 'the wicked old Paris of the Orient,' its barrooms thick with gangsters and newsmen, its alleys 'scented with sweet almond broth, opium smoke and the chemical bite of Flit insecticide'....<

On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon.

Emily "Mickey" Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China.

At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affa...

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