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In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence - from diplomatic dispatches to memoirs to police reports - to produce the most comprehensive account of this chaotic period of Chinese history. In analysing the Green Gang's system of organised crime in Shanghai, the author broadens our understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history and sheds light on the history of drug trafficking and organised crime worldwide. Martin argues that the Green Gang, the most powerful secret society in China during the first half of the twentieth century, was a resilient social organisation that adapted successfully to the complex environment of a modernising urban society. Illustrating its multilayered and complex relations with the bourgeoisie, the industrial proletariat, and the foreign and domestic political authorities, Martin demonstrates how these factors led to the Green Gang's absorption into the corporate state system after 1932. (ISBN:0520201140) (For this item please quote stock ID 10600) ISBN: 0520201140

On the eve of the twentieth century, few places were as exciting as Shanghai. Once a wildness of swamps, Asia's 'Sin City' evolved into a dazzling modern-day Babylon: redolent with the sickly sweet smell of opium; teeming with illicit sex, crime, and poverty; rife with corruption and glamorous wealth. In this vibrant history, Stella Dong follows the rise and fall of the city's booming international port, gateway to China's heartland. In intricate, coloUrful detail, she examines the misdeeds of its criminal underworld, the passions of its citizens decadent appetites, and the revolutionary spirit of its many political refugees. Best of all, she captures the essence of the city as if it were a person who had lived a fascinating and tumultuous life. (ISBN:0060934816) (For this item please quote stock ID 15572) ISBN: 0060934816

This is the first album to chronicle Shanghai's treaty port. These 205 old photographs have been selected to reflect the changes and development of this great city and are chronologically arranged in the form of a narrative. (ISBN:9622381723) (For this item please quote stock ID 18758) ISBN: 9622381723

Shanghai, the largest international city in China, is currently experiencing vast global business interest. As it has the fastest growing economy and is the centrepiece of the Chinese economy, this fast-paced, financial epi-centre is a subject of immense scrutiny. Deciphering Shanghai deals with the development of the Chinese business world focusing on the Shanghai of 1990 – 2000. Already a best seller in China, this Chinese edition brings great insight into the world’s fastest growing financial district for investment and trade. It also provides a close look at real-life in today’s Shanghai. The author recognises that Shanghai’s past decade will also influence, shape, nurture and determine the future, and this in itself is a unique opportunity to discover what it is that makes Shanghai what it is today and will be tomorrow. Indeed, Deciphering Shanghai gives the reader a taste of how the last decade in Shanghai can provide insights and clues to China’s future. Consequently, the book provides the reader with not only a chance to learn about the financial side of Shanghai and China, but also a great opportunity to be immersed in the immensely rich and varied Chinese culture. (ISBN:064642064X) (For this item please quote stock ID 19465) ISBN: 064642064X

Come and see for yourself a most interesting chapter of China's history - a chapter on the impact of Western influence on China from the earliest days. You'll behold the legend of how Shanghai transformed itself from a fishing village to a metropolis. (ISBN:9620751841) (For this item please quote stock ID 20222) ISBN: 9620751841

[Indent] In 1872 in the treaty port of Shanghai, British merchant Ernest Major founded one of the longest-lived and most successful of modern Chinese-language newspapers, the Shenbao. His publication quickly became a leading newspaper in China and won praise as a 'department store of news,' a 'forum for intellectual discussion and moral challenge,' and an 'independent mouthpiece of the public voice.' Located in the International Settlement of Shanghai, it was free of government regulation. Paradoxically, in a country where the government monopolised the public sphere, it became one of the world's most independent newspapers. As a private venture, the Shenbao was free of the ideologies that constrained missionary papers published in China during the 19th century. But it also lacked the subsidies that allowed these papers to survive without a large readership. As a purely commercial venture, the foreign-managed Shenbao depended on the acceptance of educated Chinese, who would write for it, read it, and buy it. This book sets out to analyse how the managers of the Shenbao made their alien product acceptable to Chinese readers and how foreign-style newspapers became alternative modes of communication acknowledged as a powerful part of the Chinese public sphere within a few years. In short, it describes how the foreign Shenbao became a 'newspaper for China.' (ISBN:0674012178) (For this item please quote stock ID 21807) ISBN: 0674012178

Shanghai from 1860 to 1949 was an amazing spectacle, a 20th-century Babylon reverberating in the Western imagination as a place of style, excitement and intrigue. The city where East met West in China. Shanghai was Asia’s only modern metropolis and an international crossroads attracting the citizens of over fifty nations. Home to gangsters and revolutionaries, tycoons and political and economic refugees, Shanghai was both the stage upon which every important event in modern China’s history was enacted and a place so wicked it inspired Marlene Dietrich to rasp, 'It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.' (ISBN:4895069301535) (For this item please quote stock ID 21909) ISBN: 4895069301535

~From the early twentieth century until the Communist takeover in 1949, Shanghai commercial artists created thousands of colourful posters and black and white advertisements that formed an essential part of modern life in the city. This visually appealing and richly illustrated work describes the origin and evolution of modern commercial art in China, focusing on colourful advertisement calendar posters that featured distinctive feminine images. It makes clear how essential commercial art and its institutional backing were to the development of modern art and even modern society in China over the past century.

~Selling Happiness discusses not only advertising art but also the production and marketing of the calendar poster.

~These posters, like other advertisements, were rendered in a Western realistic technique and were wildly and widely popular. Ordinary people throughout China often acquired them to decorate their homes. Laing outlines how the Chinese commercial artist, who rarely attended formal Western art classes, gained skills in Western representational art. In the final chapter of the book, she explains how the styles developed by the commercial poster artists during the 1920s and 1930s became the basis for certain types of propaganda art under the Chinese Communists in the 1950s and 1960s.

~Ellen Johnston Laing is research associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. (ISBN:0824827643) (For this item please quote stock ID 23315) ISBN: 0824827643

The author has lived in Shanghai since 1995 and written a number of books about China. The restaurants listed in this book were selected on criteria that include food, ambiance and service. The style of food represented includes Shanghainese, Beijing, Cantonese, Sichuan, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and many other regional styles of cooking. (ISBN:7883945386) (For this item please quote stock ID 24457) ISBN: 7883945386

This guide introduces mostly non-chain coffee places (with some small chain outlets) to give readers a sense of the variety available. It also includes some Chinese teahouses for additional tasting pleasures! (ISBN:7883945394) (For this item please quote stock ID 24458) ISBN: 7883945394

The authors are currently teaching English in Shanghai. As a BBC (British Born Chinese), Wendy Pang is able to view China from two perspectives; both Chinese and western. Will Chen has travelled extensively before deciding on staying in Shanghai. The author used the 'star' rating system, from one-five. The places in this book have been chosen to meet a variety of tastes. (ISBN:7883946919) (For this item please quote stock ID 24459) ISBN: 7883946919

To rate the restaurants in this book, the four most important aspects of fine dining were evaluated: food, wine, service, ambience. An overall 'star' rating was given to the restaurant. The author is Chief Editorial officer at AsiaMedia Limited, a communications consultancy based in Shanghai. She has lived in China since 1995. (ISBN:7883946927) (For this item please quote stock ID 24460) ISBN: 7883946927

This book of photographs focuses on the process of transition: from the science-fiction skyline of Pudong to the historic architecture of the Bund; from the courtyards and lanes with their longtang housing to the modern high-rises, from the muddy Huangpu River with its conveyor belt of ships and its soaring modern bridges to the ancient watertowns of Xinchang and Zhujia Jiao. (ISBN:7883944304) (For this item please quote stock ID 24467) ISBN: 7883944304

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This package contains 16 photos. They represent the photographer's understanding of Shanghai, and are also reflections of modern-day Shanghai. (ISBN:7805309876) (For this item please quote stock ID 24469) ISBN: 7805309876

From teen dating to public displays of affection, from the 'fishing girls' and 'big moneys' that wander discos in search of romance to the changing shape of sex in the Chinese city, this is a book like no other. James Farrer immerses himself in the vibrant nightlife of Shanghai, draws on individual and group interviews with Chinese youth, as well as recent changes in popular media, and considers how sexual culture has changed in China since its shift to a more market-based economy. More and more men and women in China these days are having sex before marriage, creating a new youth sex culture based on romance, leisure, and free choice. The Chinese themselves describe these changes as an 'opening up' in response to foreign influences and increased Westernisation. Farrer explores these changes by tracing the basic elements in talk about sex and sexuality in Shanghai. He then shows how Chinese youth act out the sometimes-contradictory meanings of sex in the new market society. For Farrer, sexuality is a lens through which we can see how China imagines and understands itself in the wake of increased globalisation. Through personal storytelling, neighborhood gossip, and games of seduction, young men and women in Shanghai balance pragmatism with romance, lust with love, and seriousness with play, collectively constructing and individually coping with a new culture based on market principles. With its provocative glimpse into the sex lives of young Chinese, then, Opening Up offers something even greater: a thoughtful consideration of China as it continues to develop into an economic superpower. (ISBN:0226238717) (For this item please quote stock ID 17312) ISBN: 0226238717

How to seem coquettish and provocative, while at the same time looking coy and demure, was the art perfected by fashionable young women portrayed in pre-war Shanghai posters. They were a genre all to themselves. If the true power of advertising lies in seduction, here was a style that subtly hinted at much more than it revealed, even when promoting products as innocuous as lip-rouge, talcum powder, soaps, perfumes, cigarettes and the ubiquitous Shanghai movies. (ISBN:9789627283959) (For this item please quote stock ID 21912) ISBN: 9789627283959

Between 1854 and 1943, the Shanghai Municipal Council of International Settlement of Shanghai was a supreme organisation making decisive policies and administering the Settlement. During this 90 year period, the Council met each month and later, each week. The Minutes show how the Council discussed and made decisions on political, economic, and military affairs, municipal administration, culture, education, and religion in the Shanghai International Settlement. The Minutes also cover major events in the modern and contemporary history of China, including the Revolution of 1911, the May 30th Movement, the April 12th Coup, Anti-Japanese War, etc. The Minutes is a valuable research and study source for the history of the settlements in China and the settlement history of Shanghai. In 1983, the Shanghai Municipal Archives commenced the translation of all the original English minutes into Chinese. Consists of 28 bilingual volumes. (For this item please quote stock ID 17551)

Shanghai, the largest international city in China, is currently experiencing vast global business interest. As it has the fastest growing economy and is the centrepiece of the Chinese economy, this fast-paced, financial epi-centre is a subject of immense scrutiny. Deciphering Shanghai deals with the development of the Chinese business world focusing on the Shanghai of 1990 ? 2000. Already a best seller in China, this English edition will bring great insight into the world?s fastest growing financial district for investment and trade. It also provides a close look at real-life in today?s Shanghai. The author recognises that Shanghai?s past decade will also influence, shape, nurture and determine the future, and this in itself is a unique opportunity to discover what it is that makes Shanghai what it is today and will be tomorrow. Indeed, Deciphering Shanghai gives the reader a taste of how the last decade in Shanghai can provide insights and clues to China?s future. Consequently, the book provides the reader with not only a chance to learn about the financial side of Shanghai and China, but also a great opportunity to be immersed in the immensely rich and varied Chinese culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 19464) ISBN: 9780646420639

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A collection of essays dealing with the critical role played by Shanghai in China's internal and economic affairs and in the history of international relations in the Far East. Contents: >List of illustrations >Preface >Foreword >Abbreviations Part I. The Modern Historical Perspective >1. ?The other China?: Shanghai from 1919 to 1949 (Marie-Claire Bergèe) Part II. Political Life >2. Political mobilization in Shanghai, 1949-1951 (Richard Gaulton) >3. Shanghai & Chinese politics: before & after the Cultural Revolution (Parris Chang) >4. Shanghai dockers in the Cultural Revolution: the interplay of political & economic issues (Raymond F. Wylie) >5. The Shanghai connection: Shanghai?s role in national politics during the 1970s (David S. G. Goodman) Part III. Economic Development & Living-Standards >6. Industrialization under conditions of long-run population stability: Shanghai?s achievement & prospect (Christopher Howe) >7. The quest for food self-sufficiency (Robert Ash) >8. Changes in the standard of living of Shanghai industrial workers, 1930-1973 (Bruce L. Reynolds) Part IV. The Suburban Transformation >9. Shanghai-suburb relations, 1949-1966 (Lynn T. White) >10. The spatial development of Shanghai (Ka-iu Fung) Part V. Culture & Ideology >11. The emergence of }worker-writers? in Shanghai (Lars Ragvald) >12. Study & criticism: the voice of Shanghai radicalism (John Gardner) >Notes; A chronology of modern Shanghai, 1842-1979; Index. (For this item please quote stock ID 8155) ISBN: 9780521231985

'Superbly researched and tightly conceptualised. Covering the 110 years before the successful communist revolution in 1949, Perry?s study gently modifies several generations of received wisdom about Chinese labor activities ... She combines the social scientist?s passion for order with the historian?s eye for compelling anecdote ... The result is a sophisticated, provocative, and entertaining piece of work that profoundly alters our understanding of Chinese labour' - American Historical Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 11770) ISBN: 9780804724913

Pudong, the epitome of China?s economic progress, has become a bustling zone in which renowned consortiums, transnational corporations, overseas Chinese and domestic companies aplenty have opened their businesses and have constructed buildings. At present, no fewer than 200 high-rise structures are scattered throughout all parts of Pudong, but are especially concentrated overlooking the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone. Prestigious Buildings in Shanghai Pudong highlights these high-rise buildings on the east bank of the Huangpu River which are masterpieces from architects all over the world. Skyscrapers, businesses and apartment buildings such as the Jin Mao Building, New Asia Tomson Hotel and Crest Villa are all covered. Locations and a table of all prestigious buildings in the Pudong are included. (For this item please quote stock ID 12526) ISBN: 9787801132314

In the 1920s and 30s, Shanghai was established as one of the world's major cities. A vital, prospering metropolis with a population of over one million, and the commercial and cultural centre of China, it was one place where it was certain that Western influences would have a forceful impact. Consequently, artists from different disciplines took part in the lively debates on the issue of what direction Chinese art and culture should take and Shanghai Modern documents this vigorous cultural exchange between the country and Europe, especially Germany. Through essays by authors of international renown, this book sheds new light on the early years of China's Western gaze, while it presents a magnificent collection of works by early exponents of Chinese modernism, many of which have never been shown before. Features works by artists such as Huang Binhong, Li Hua, Liu Haisu, Ni Yide, Pan Tianshou, Pan Yuliang, Pan Xunquin, Qiu Ti, and Mark Tobey. Edited by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Ken Lum and Zheng Shengtian. Essays by David Clarke, Xu Hong, Xu Jian, Zhang Qing, Kuiyi Shen, Michael Sullivan, Shui Tianzhong and Shelagh Vainker. (For this item please quote stock ID 24836) ISBN: 9783775714976

Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future will be contextualised in this book by examining the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary architecture interwoven in a body text that unlocks the many mysteries that surround this infamous metropolis. Some of the most influential colonial architecture in the world, outstanding examples of Modernism and Art Deco (yet to be documented internationally), and an exceptional selection of eclectic and vernacular architecture reflecting Shanghai's many adopted cultures are revealed. The result of this meticulously composed material is the first book ever to examine this remarkable subject in a manner that is both comprehensive and captivating in its written content and visually stunning in appearance. (For this item please quote stock ID 26265) ISBN: 9780470016374

Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but warfare was not restricted to that zone. A spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the noses of the authorities. Thanks to the release of secret Chinese police files by the CIA, the inner workings of these terrorist groups and their links to the notorious Green Gang can now be exposed for the first time. In so doing, this book also explores the social history of Shanghai's underworld, the worsening relations between the US and Japan before World War II, and the rivalry between leaders Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei during China's War of Resistance. (For this item please quote stock ID 18701) ISBN: 9780521528719

Contents: >Huangpu & Wusong >Old Profile of the Urban & Rural Areas >Waitan >A Society of Immigrants >Street Panoramas >Concentration of all Business >Professions at Roadside >Various Forms of City Customs >The Old Shanghai in Length & Breadth. (For this item please quote stock ID 21444) ISBN: 9787102019581

Shanghai is a metropolis situated where the mighty Yangtze River flows into the sea. This album, containing more than 80 photographs, shows the prosperity of the Shanghai municipality, its cultural relics and its scenic spots. (For this item please quote stock ID 19374) ISBN: 9787119022215

This book does not relate the entire history of how Shanghai became a modern metropolis over the course of 100 years, nor does it go in for nostalgic reminiscences of 'Old Shanghai.' It focuses, instead, on the tremendous changes that have taken place in Shanghai since reform and opening-up, and unfolds in pictures and text the source for all these changes, displaying the charm and magic of Shanghai, and its prospects for the future. (For this item please quote stock ID 26597) ISBN: 9787119040806

This book puts all the information needed to set up life in Shanghai, into one book of 21 chapters, each with its own section of useful addresses and a dictionary. The index and tab markers on every page make finding specific answers to any questions a breeze. As an American living in Shanghai, the author knows first hand the difficulties and feelings of achievement in mastering a new life in a new country. (For this item please quote stock ID 24461) ISBN: 9787883944430

Shanghai, a major port city on China?s Pacific west coast, is undergoing the most spectacular growth of its 150 year history. Located where China's largest river, the Yangzi, joins the country's prosperous eastern coast, Shanghai has evolved from a small 19th century fishing town into a modern metropolis and a renowned financial and trade centre in East Asia. The city is China?s largest port with a transportation network extending to China's vast inland regions. In recent years, Shanghai has achieved much in its endeavor to become one of the world's economic, financial and trade centres. The city was pushed to the forefront by China's reform and opening in 1990 and was offered a rare historical opportunity to develop. After years of reform, Shanghai has taken on a new look of prosperity and vitality. Its favorable geographic location, rich cultural heritage, solid economic foundation and a long history of East-West exchange have all contributed to its spectacular growth. (For this item please quote stock ID 17549) ISBN: 9787532608164

This is the first album to chronicle Shanghai's treaty port. These 205 old photographs have been selected to reflect the changes and development of this great city and are chronologically arranged in the form of a narrative. (For this item please quote stock ID 11652) ISBN: 9789622381711

Unlike conventional publications, each book of this series contains a large number of old photographs selected to form a pictorial commentary on the text. Readers can learn about Chinese urban history and cultural evolution in urban society from a new perspective. The series offers insights into the historical changes of cities and the lives of urban Chinese in modern times. Writers renowned for their strong local style present a panoramic view of a city or the fate of the man in the street. This volume on Old Shanghai consists of five chapters: >'Review & Trance? >?Shadow Play of the Past? >?Photos are Traces of the Past? >?A City with Human Temperature? >?Through the Door of Impression?. Each chapter is divided into small sections, and adds to this detailed description of Old Shanghai. (For this item please quote stock ID 18152) ISBN: 9787119028453

This book reveals a true sense of community, exhibiting the cooking skills of 41 friends, who introduce their countries, explain the local cuisine and table etiquette, write an original recipe and prepare food for the test kitchen. All profits from the sale of this book will benefit the children's charity in Shanghai. (For this item please quote stock ID 24462) ISBN: 9787883944317

This volume is an hilarious experience of a wide variety of fellow international culinairians. This book is about their favourite secret recipes. The second in running for a series of charity projects organised by the Schroeder Bears, the profits from the sale of this book will benefit Project Integration and The Smile Train. (For this item please quote stock ID 24463) ISBN: 9787883948803

In the midst of China's wild rush to modernise, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing centre of commerce and art in the heart of the 20th century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this 'treaty port' from the Western world. A pre-eminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, particularly Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, and Eileen Chang, Lee discloses the reflection of Shanghai's urban landscape - foreign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day. (For this item please quote stock ID 9325) ISBN: 9780674805514

This series of guides follows a consistent concept, illustrating buildings with photos, drawings and details of their location in the city. Each structure has the same amount of space devoted to it. Photos depict an exterior view, interiors and details. This guide illustrates the architecture and urban landscape in the form of a snapshot from the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century. It contains 199 photos, 23 drawings for 130 buildings/complexes, and 5 city maps. The author is an architect. Since 1997 he has worked in Shanghai and written articles about Shanghai architecture for a number of Italian architectural magazines. (For this item please quote stock ID 24464) ISBN: 9787883944447

This guide considers the progressive transformation from Chinese Tradition to modern styles and the elements that remained constant throughout the process. It looks at Chinese and Western concepts and elements. The buildings illustrated are examples of different concepts. The guide contains some 170 photos, 30 drawings for 60 buildings/complexes and one city map. (For this item please quote stock ID 24465) ISBN: 9787883945475

This guide introduces those religious buildings with notable architectural features. It also mentions religious buildings that are no longer used for religious purposes. The guide includes buildings in Shanghai's urban areas and some others on the city's outskirts. It contains 159 photos, 12 drawings for 45 buildings and one city map. (For this item please quote stock ID 24466) ISBN: 9787883944348

A great introduction to contemporary Shanghai. Replete with colour photographs (captioned in Chinese and English), this book allows the reader to capture the essence of Shanghai and things Shanghainese. Each of Shanghai's 18 districts are covered and the book concludes with an appendix that lists restaurants, hotels, transport lines, entertainment, scenic spots, shops and shopping centres. (For this item please quote stock ID 26318) ISBN: 9787806467800

Shanghai, probably China's most famous and infamous metropolis, is a place often described as one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. This book concentrates on the modern history of this urban centre and analyses the major periods of globalisation that the city has encountered. (For this item please quote stock ID 26472) ISBN: 9780415213288

This book does not relate the entire history of how Shanghai became a modern metropolis over the course of 100 years, nor does it go in for nostalgic reminiscences of 'Old Shanghai.' It focuses, instead, on the tremendous changes that have taken place in Shanghai since reform and opening-up, and unfolds in pictures and text the source for all these changes, displaying the charm and magic of Shanghai, and its prospects for the future. (For this item please quote stock ID 26213) ISBN: 9787119040813

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15765) ISBN: 9787102019581

Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three 10-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, and Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country's financial, cultural, and commercial capital. His effort to show China's misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce's fervent anti-communism, and for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life's archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution. Seen through the lens of hindsight, Birns's photographs give us a sense not only of what China was like more than 50 years ago, but also of why the warfare, weariness, and desperation of the time proved such fertile soil for communist revolution. Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people tell a story of national resilience and dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, and fear. Birns's stark black and white photographs capture the dramatic end of an era, but they also look forward, letting us glimpse how Shanghai's past prefigures the city's commercial and cultural revival in the 1990s. 'For over half a century, Americans have been pondering the reasons for the swift collapse of the Nationalist Chinese forces during 1948 and early 1949. Jack Birns's agile lens brings many things into focus for us: the manifold levels of urban poverty, the breakdown of any pretense to social order, the random brutality meted out to suspected Communists, and the unsparing distance between foreign privilege and domestic deprivation. This book is a powerful addition to our pictorial and emotional record of those bitter months' - Jonathan Spence, author, The Search for Modern China. 'As a journalist who covered the Chinese civil war and reported the Communist siege of Mukden and the fall of Nanjing and Shanghai in 1949, I can testify to the penetrating authenticity of these Jack Birns photographs, which capture the essence of the agonising human upheaval on the eve of Mao Zedong's ascent to power. Birns has given us a stunning pictorial record of focal events during a world-changing revolution' - Seymour Topping, former managing editor of the New York Times and SanPaolo Professor Emeritus of International Journalism, Columbia University. Jack Birns is a former Life photographer who was stationed in Shanghai during the final years of China's Civil War. Carolyn Wakeman is Associate Professor of Journalism and Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Asia-Pacific Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. Ken Light is a teaching fellow and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. (For this item please quote stock ID 21762) ISBN: 9780520239906

全新的视听享受，精彩的文化荟萃，隆重的庆祝活动，城市，让生活更美好Better City, Better Life. 　　《中国2010年上海世博会开幕式》囊括了世博会开幕式、焰火晚会、开园仪式，这场“举全国之力、集世界智慧”的上海世博会，将永载世博会历史，让我们永远珍藏这场精彩难忘的世界文明盛会。 (For this item please quote stock ID 34407) ISBN: 9787799825724

实地探访世博园区，揭秘展馆精彩看点，一天之内环游世界，一次看遍60个热门场馆 (For this item please quote stock ID 34406) ISBN: 9787799224046

In the last week of May 1999, a group of professional international photographers gathered in Shanghai to participate in a six-day photographic project called ‘Shanghai in the Eyes of Top World Photographers.’ The photographers left their footprints on more than 200 sites around the city as they captured Shanghai’s sights, dreams, confidence and vision. Their collective work weaves a panorama of the city and sheds light into the character and culture of its residents. (For this item please quote stock ID 14170) ISBN: 9787801136299

The Age of Shanghainese Pops 1930-1970 attempts to put a true face to the genre, telling its story through song sheets, magazine pictures, historical photographs, record covers and illustrations as well with analytical texts. All this comes together here as a colourful, panoramic and by-and-large firsthand picture of how East met West and how social and cultural elements have worked together to shape the genre in the most turbulent years of Modern China. The Age of Shanghainese Pops is the first book of its kind in terms of comprehensiveness and thoroughness. Its narrative does not stop at the birth of the PRC in 1949, but goes on to cover Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, where Shanghainese Pops continued to thrive and develop. The book is accompanied by a CD in which 24 songs representing different periods and styles are compiled to give readers a more vivid impression of this most interesting phenomenon of popular culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 22931) ISBN: 9789620419010