Shanghai by Harriet Sergeant

Shanghai

Harriet Sergeant

371 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In the 1920s and 1930s Shanghai was called the whore of the Orient, home to gangsters and warlords, where nightclubs never closed and hotels supplied heroin on room service. It became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and films. With i...

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