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Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world

Title: Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world / Taras Grescoe.
Author: Grescoe, Taras.
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
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xiii, 455 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair with an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, convinced she will never love again. After checking in to Sassoon's glamorous Cathay Hotel, Hahn is absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and a colourful gangster named Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet from an illustrious family, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees--places her innate curiosity will lead her to explore first hand. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists rise to power"--

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Note

"First published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-436) and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-8980

ISBN

9781250049711
1250049717

LCCN

2016001124

OCLC

2016001124

Author

Grescoe, Taras.

Title

Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world / Taras Grescoe.

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-436) and index.

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JFE 16-8980

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