Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
by Grescoe, Taras
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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War, Grescoe, Taras. Published by HarperAvenue, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2016. First Canadian Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 488 pp with photos, map bibliography and index. Quarter black cloth over red boards, gilt spine titles. Both volume and unclipped dustjacket are in mint condition.
On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for writers, artist and expats including Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Emily Hahn and Harold Acton, as well as for gangsters, rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees. Shanghai Grand is a history of this city and its inhabitants during this volatile pre-war period. Taras Grescoe is an award-winning Canadian non-fiction writer.
On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for writers, artist and expats including Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Emily Hahn and Harold Acton, as well as for gangsters, rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees. Shanghai Grand is a history of this city and its inhabitants during this volatile pre-war period. Taras Grescoe is an award-winning Canadian non-fiction writer.
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- Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
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