Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City

Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao′s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor.

Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel.

Author: Stella Dong
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/22/2001
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.43w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780060934811

About the Author
Dong, Stella: - Journalist Stella Dong has written for the New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, and Harper's Bazaar. A first-generation Chinese American, she grew up in Seattle and now lives in New York City. This is her first book.