Shanghai

Real lives in modern Shanghai - a portrait of a dynamic city struggling against a repressive regime.

Reducere. DescriptionSHANGHAI, 1935. The Most Alluring and Most Dangerous City in the WorldSomeone is murdering flower-seller girls in Shanghai's Flowery Kin...

After planting a seed, the blue bird returns to find a full-grown tree, admiring how it changes through every season of the year. At first, she is ...

Real lives in modern Shanghai - a portrait of a dynamic city struggling against a repressive regime

Publisher: Peter Lang AGAuthor(s): Michael SzurawitzkiNumber of pages: 180Collection: Publikationen Der Internationalen Vereinigung Fuer GermanistP...

Reducere. DescriptionAs any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR corresponden...

Roxy Doyle is contacted by Allan Pinkerton's son, Robert, of the famed Pinkerton Agency, who requests that she go undercover in San Francisco's Bar...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1922, white colonialists in Shanghai see themselves as an impregnable supreme race. But then Russians come and ruin the perfect world...

A history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.

A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by explori...

Reducere. It's safe to say that few people have lived lives as thoroughly devoted to plants as Peter H. Raven has. The longtime director--now president emeri...

Western 'teachers', many of whom would not be considered teachers elsewhere, teach English in public and private education in China. This book shed...

This groundbreaking study will intrigue anyone interested in Confucianism. It shows how visual images and literary production enabled the creation ...

Reducere. On the rainy afternoon of November 28, 1938, a slight 18-year-old Austrian man took in his first impressions of Shanghai. Paul Hoffmann had left hi...

DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

A superb example of the ever-popular Japanese POW genre. First hand and contemporaneous account of survival on the notorious Burma Railway.

Reducere. DescriptionNow one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year" From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking--winne...

To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffe...