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Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China
Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1990. 1 volume, illustrated paperback, in-8, 299 pp., 21 plates, very good copy.
Contents: Shanghai before the Coming of the Foreigners - The Opium War and the Opening of Shanghai as a Treaty Port - The Creation of a Foreign Community in Shanghai - Chinese Rebellions and the Growth of Shanghai into a Major Metropolis - The Cosmopolitan City of Shanghai - Shanghai Moves into the Modern Age - The Shanghai of the Foreigners - The Chinese Adjust to Living among Foreigners - Shanghai as China Entered the Twentieth Century - From Enlightenment to Revolution - The Revolution of 1911 in Shanghai - The 'Good Old Days': Intellectual and Political Ferment in Shanghai - The Nationalist Era - Epilogue: Shanghai after 1945.
