Shanghai: Gateway to the Celestial Empire Condition:Well Read one cannot help but long

one cannot help but long for the companionship of another person when one's closest friend is a reluctant Persian cat

Publication Date: 03 Sep 2002

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Shanghai: Gateway to the Celestial Empire Condition:Well Read one cannot help but longShanghai from 1860 to 1949 was an amazing spectacle, a twentieth century Babylon reverberating in the Western imagination as a place of style, excitement and intrigue. The place where East met West in China, Shanghai was Asia's only modern metropolis and an international crossroads attracting the citizens of over fifty nations. Home to gangsters and revolutionaries, tycoons and political and economic refugees, Shanghai was both the stage upon which