Shanghai
Author: Shing, Liu Heung
ISBN: 9780670080908
Publisher: Penguin China
Year first published: 02 May 2011
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback / softback
The modern city of Shanghai rose up from truly P#39;muddyP#39; origins, both in the soft subsoil its foundations were build upon and its early economy based on a trade in opium, or P#39;foreign mudP#39;.P#160; Forced open to the British by the unequal Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Shanghai did what it does best: it beat the odds to become a P#39;bawdy and gaudyP#39; metropolis that, 168 years later, commands a place in the contemporary imagination unlike any other city.Plt;brPgt;Despite civil war, invasion, revolution and famine, Shanghai has continued to be a byword for style, culture, business and opportunity, leading the way for ChinaP#39;s ongoing boom.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;ShanghaiPlt;/iPgt;Plt;iPgt;: A History in Photographs, 1842-TodayPlt;/iPgt; unravels the origins of todayP#39;s Shanghai, exploring the forces that shaped the city through rare archive photographs, images from private collections, and original commissions from the worldP#39;s top contemporary photographers.P#160; This is the story of China-told through the prism of the countryP#39;s most international city.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;With a forward by Paul French.Plt;brPgt;
ISBN: 9780670080908
Publisher: Penguin China
Year first published: 02 May 2011
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback / softback
The modern city of Shanghai rose up from truly P#39;muddyP#39; origins, both in the soft subsoil its foundations were build upon and its early economy based on a trade in opium, or P#39;foreign mudP#39;.P#160; Forced open to the British by the unequal Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Shanghai did what it does best: it beat the odds to become a P#39;bawdy and gaudyP#39; metropolis that, 168 years later, commands a place in the contemporary imagination unlike any other city.Plt;brPgt;Despite civil war, invasion, revolution and famine, Shanghai has continued to be a byword for style, culture, business and opportunity, leading the way for ChinaP#39;s ongoing boom.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;ShanghaiPlt;/iPgt;Plt;iPgt;: A History in Photographs, 1842-TodayPlt;/iPgt; unravels the origins of todayP#39;s Shanghai, exploring the forces that shaped the city through rare archive photographs, images from private collections, and original commissions from the worldP#39;s top contemporary photographers.P#160; This is the story of China-told through the prism of the countryP#39;s most international city.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;With a forward by Paul French.Plt;brPgt;
