Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China's wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation that had seen Shanghai's rise to global prominence. But it is the racetrack that attracts the largest crowd of all…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-63595-9
- EAN: 9780393635959
- Produktnummer: 34241790
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 53 illustrations
Über den Autor
James Carter, professor of history at Saint Joseph's University, is the author of two previous books on Chinese history and is a Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He lives in Ewing, New Jersey.
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