Old Shanghai

by Betty Peh-T'i Wei

A popular history of Shanghai, focusing in particular on its golden age in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book traces the complex texture of Chinese and foreign life from Shanghai's days as a market town. Wei tells the story of gangsters, traders, and bankers, as well
as the artists, political activists, missionaries, and armies of laborers who made Shanghai one of the world's foremost business cities, and the flashpoint of political and social change in China. Asia's largest city, Shanghai pulsated with wealth sophistication and suffering, through its
international heyday to the communist takeover in 1949.

80 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1993

About the author

Betty Wei was a Chinese-born American historian and writer.