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Uncommon Perspectives on Far-Flung Corners of the World; Remembering the Vintage Years of Old Shanghai
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Shanghai, once known as the Paris of the Orient, has persisted in
the western imagination as the essence of exoticism, excitement,
color and vitality through wars, revolutions and decades of
isolation. But vintage Shanghai, the city that epitomized those
qualities, actually existed in all its extraordinary variety and
complexity for only a very short span of time: during the years
between the end of World War I and the capture of the Chinese part of
the city by the Japanese in 1937.
In those days, the great port-which lies about 13 miles above the
mouth of the Huangpu River, a small ...
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