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Shanghai Grand: Verbotene Liebe und internationale Intrigen in einer dem Untergang geweihten Welt-
by Grescoe, Taras | HC | VeryGood
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250049717
ISBN-13
9781250049711
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217081324
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shanghai Grand : Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Emigration & Immigration, Asia / General, Literary, Essays & Travelogues, Asia / China, Customs & Traditions, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
25 oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-001124
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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'.... Shanghai Grand is a headlong swoon for old Shanghai. The feeling is easy to catch.'" -- New York Times Book Review "Filled with excellent short character sketches and keeps the reader turning the pages to find out what will happen next....Brings to life a special time and a special place." -- The Wall Street Journal "A keenly observant, sometimes soulful portrait of Emily 'Mickey' Hahn, an American writer who lived in Shanghai from 1935 to 1943, and of China's political and social realities during that tumultuous period in its history. . . . A wonderful book." -- Publishers Weekly "The author deftly follows Hahn's adventures through this 'city of legend.' Grescoe exuberantly captures the glamour and intrigue of a lost world." --Kirkus Reviews "Long before the city seemed custom-built to impress and intimidate, Shanghai was most notable for its people--a remarkable mix of refugees and adventurers, poets and fabulists, natives and outsiders. In Shanghai Grand , Taras Grescoe captures this lost world in all its richness." --Peter Hessler , New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones "A doomed world of glamour and decadence, a clash of cultures, a cast of larger-than-life characters - Shanghai Grand has it all. Taras Grescoe tells a riveting tale of lost innocence and lost love, set against the backdrop of China on the brink of war and revolution. Prepare to be transported to another place and time." --Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception Praise for Taras Grescoe Praise for Taras Grescoe "[ Straphanger ] almost reads like a travelogue as the author revels in the wonders of his diverse destinations. With a smooth, accessible narrative style...captivating [and] convincing." -- Kirkus "This paean to public transportation is front-loaded with statistics edifying to city dwellers...the book unfurls into studies of a dozen cities around the world." -- The New Yorker on Straphanger " Straphanger is a sort of love letter to mass transit...compelling and entertaining." -- The Wall Street Journal, "A keenly observant, sometimes soulful portrait of Emily 'Mickey' Hahn, an American writer who lived in Shanghai from 1935 to 1943, and of China's political and social realities during that tumultuous period in its history. . . . A wonderful book." -- Publishers Weekly "The author deftly follows Hahn's adventures through this 'city of legend.' Grescoe exuberantly captures the glamour and intrigue of a lost world." --Kirkus Reviews "Long before the city seemed custom-built to impress and intimidate, Shanghai was most notable for its people--a remarkable mix of refugees and adventurers, poets and fabulists, natives and outsiders. In Shanghai Grand , Taras Grescoe captures this lost world in all its richness." --Peter Hessler , New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones "A doomed world of glamour and decadence, a clash of cultures, a cast of larger-than-life characters - Shanghai Grand has it all. Taras Grescoe tells a riveting tale of lost innocence and lost love, set against the backdrop of China on the brink of war and revolution. Prepare to be transported to another place and time." --Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception Praise for Taras Grescoe Praise for Taras Grescoe "[ Straphanger ] almost reads like a travelogue as the author revels in the wonders of his diverse destinations. With a smooth, accessible narrative style...captivating [and] convincing." -- Kirkus "This paean to public transportation is front-loaded with statistics edifying to city dwellers...the book unfurls into studies of a dozen cities around the world." -- The New Yorker on Straphanger " Straphanger is a sort of love letter to mass transit...compelling and entertaining." -- The Wall Street Journal, "A keenly observant, sometimes soulful portrait of Emily 'Mickey' Hahn, an American writer who lived in Shanghai from 1935 to 1943, and of China's political and social realities during that tumultuous period in its history. . . . A wonderful book." -- Publishers Weekly "Long before the city seemed custom-built to impress and intimidate, Shanghai was most notable for its people--a remarkable mix of refugees and adventurers, poets and fabulists, natives and outsiders. In Shanghai Grand , Taras Grescoe captures this lost world in all its richness." --Peter Hessler , New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones "A doomed world of glamour and decadence, a clash of cultures, a cast of larger-than-life characters - Shanghai Grand has it all. Taras Grescoe tells a riveting tale of lost innocence and lost love, set against the backdrop of China on the brink of war and revolution. Prepare to be transported to another place and time." --Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception Praise for Taras Grescoe "[ Straphanger ] almost reads like a travelogue as the author revels in the wonders of his diverse destinations. With a smooth, accessible narrative style...captivating [and] convincing." - Kirkus "This paean to public transportation is front-loaded with statistics edifying to city dwellers...the book unfurls into studies of a dozen cities around the world." - The New Yorker on Straphanger " Straphanger is a sort of love letter to mass transit...compelling and entertaining." The Wall Street Journal, Praise for Taras Grescoe "[ Straphanger ] almost reads like a travelogue as the author revels in the wonders of his diverse destinations. With a smooth, accessible narrative style...captivating [and] convincing." - Kirkus "This paean to public transportation is front-loaded with statistics edifying to city dwellers...the book unfurls into studies of a dozen cities around the world." - The New Yorker on Straphanger " Straphanger is a sort of love letter to mass transit...compelling and entertaining." The Wall Street Journal
Dewey Decimal
951.132042092
Synopsis
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 affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, convinced she will never love again. After checking in to Sassoon's glamorous Cathay Hotel, Hahn is absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and a colourful gangster named Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet from an illustrious family, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees--a place her innate curiosity will lead her to explore first hand. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists rise to power.
LC Classification Number
DS796.S25G74 2016
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