Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world /
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Map: Shanghai, 1935
- Prologue: Zhujiajiao Water Town, Shanghai Municipality, March 28, 2014
- Part 1
- Shanghai, January 28, 1932
- Where China Meets the World
- The Sassoon Gamble
- Part 2
- St. Louis, 27 May 1916
- The Flapper's Progress
- Shanghai Grand
- Mickey Checks In
- On the Shanghai Beat
- Part 3
- Shanghai, April 12, 1935
- Cathay and the Muse
- The Fantastic Mr. Pan
- Cosmopolis-on-the-Whangpoo
- Part 4
- Shanghai, November 3, 1936
- The Rise of the Dwarf Bandits
- Sweetie Pie Goes to Nanking
- Part 5
- Shanghai, August 14, 1937
- After Saturday
- The Solitary Island
- Waking from the Doze
- Part 6
- Shanghai, August 1, 1941
- The Last Light in a Dark World
- Check-Out Time
- Settling the Bill
- Epilogue.