The Book of Shanghai
Title | The Book of Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Wang Anyi |
Publisher | Comma Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2020-04-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1912697378 |
As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company’s attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author’s permanent residence... As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating through the city's streets... The characters in this literary exploration of one of the world’s biggest cities are all on a mission. Whether it is responding to events around them, or following some impulse of their own, they are defined by their determination – a refusal to lose themselves in a city that might otherwise leave them anonymous, disconnected, alone. From the neglected mother whose side-hustle in collecting sellable waste becomes an obsession, to the schoolboy determined to end a long-standing feud between his family and another, these characters show a defiance that reminds us why Shanghai – despite its hurtling economic growth –remains an epicentre for individual creativity.
The Book of Shanghai
Title | The Book of Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Xiao Bai |
Publisher | Reading the City |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-04-16 |
Genre | Shanghai (China) |
ISBN | 9781912697274 |
As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man's only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company's attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author's permanent residence... As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating through the city's streets... The characters in this literary exploration of one of the world's biggest cities are all on a mission. Whether it is responding to events around them, or following some impulse of their own, they are defined by their determination--a refusal to lose themselves in a city that might otherwise leave them anonymous, disconnected, and alone. From the neglected mother whose side-hustle in collecting sellable waste becomes an obsession, to the schoolboy determined to end a long-standing feud between his family and another, these characters show a defiance that reminds us why Shanghai--despite its hurtling economic growth--remains an epicentre for individual creativity.
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Title | The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Bangqing Han |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0231122691 |
Courtesans, desire & the denizens of the Shanghai underworld are just some of the elements in Han Bangqing's novel of late imperial China, published in 1892 & now available in English for the first time.
Shanghai Stories
Title | Shanghai Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Short Story Club of Shanghai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
The Last Kings of Shanghai
Title | The Last Kings of Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Kaufman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0735224439 |
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
Life and Death in Shanghai
Title | Life and Death in Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Cheng Nien |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2010-12-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802145167 |
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Short Stories, Written in Shanghai
Title | Short Stories, Written in Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Short Story Club of Shanghai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |