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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Beijing and Shanghai
Product Description These two fascinating cities reflect different aspects of China—Beijing is the traditional capital, the seat of political power and home to the ancient monuments of Imperial China; Shanghai is both a financial powerhouse and a city at the cutting edge of fashion with an interesting modern history. This DK Eyewitness Travel Guide provides [...]
Shanghai Kiss
Liam Liu (Ken Leung of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND) is a struggling 28-year-old Chinese-American actor who unwittingly finds himself involved with a high school girl, Adelaide (Hayden Panettiere of HEROES). Soon after, Liam learns he has inherited a home from a grandmother he never knew existed in Shanghai. The American-raised character moves to China in [...]
Shanghai: A Brief History
Product Description“”Shanghai: A Brief History”” presents a comprehensive look at the city’s transformation from a small trade town to a world economic center. This compact digital compendium helps you track the diverse forces that shaped the city as we know it. You’ll explore the exciting history behind the city’s major cultural, economic, and architectural mainstays.You’ll [...]
Shanghai Trailer 2011
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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
Product DescriptionHow did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals–revolution, war, and again revolution–that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the [...]
All the Flowers in Shanghai: A Novel
Product Description For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed world of the Sang household—a place of public ceremony and private cruelty—fulfilling her duty [...]
Shanghai Ghetto
One of the most amazing and captivating survival tales of WWII, the overwhelmingly acclaimed Shanghai Ghetto has been declared a don t miss documentary.powerful.eye-opening (New York Observer). Stirringly narrated by Academy Award winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood, The Majestic), Shanghai Ghetto recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of [...]
