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Life and Death in Shanghai
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Life and Death in Shanghai

By Cheng Nien ,

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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
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The Last Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman ,

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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai

By Helen Zia ,

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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

By Jung Chang ,

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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
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The Fate of Food

By Amanda Little ,

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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
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Shanghai Grand

By Taras Grescoe ,

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Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze
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Shanghai 1937

By Peter Harmsen ,

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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
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The Shanghai Free Taxi

By Frank Langfitt ,

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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
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A Village with My Name

By Scott Tong ,

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City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir
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City of Devils

By Paul French ,

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Shanghai: A Novel
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Shanghai

By Riichi Yokomitsu ,

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Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist
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Mu Shiying

By Andrew David Field ,

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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
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Little Soldiers

By Lenora Chu ,

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Four Sisters of Hofei: A History
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Four Sisters of Hofei

By Ann Ping Chin ,

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Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
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Champions Day

By James Carter ,

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Shanghai Style: Art and Design Between the Wars
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Shanghai Style

By Lynn Pan ,

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Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life
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Shanghai Homes

By Jie Li ,

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Phantom Shanghai
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Phantom Shanghai

By Greg Girard ,

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Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn
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Nobody Said Not to Go

By Ken Cuthbertson ,

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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
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The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai

By Bangqing Han ,

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Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom
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Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom

By Carl Crow ,

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The Great Walk of China: Travels on Foot from Shanghai to Tibet
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The Great Walk of China

By Graham Earnshaw ,

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Red Azalea
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Red Azalea

By Anchee Min ,

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Jigger, Beaker and Glass: Drinking Around the World
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Jigger, Beaker and Glass

By Charles H. Baker Jr. ,

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Rickshaw Beijing: City People & Politics in the 1920s
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Rickshaw Beijing

By David Strand ,

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A History of Future Cities
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A History of Future Cities

By Daniel Brook ,

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Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
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Leaving the Witness

By Amber Scorah ,

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Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
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Bernardine's Shanghai Salon

By Susan Blumberg-Kason ,

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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937
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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

By Frederic Wakeman, Jr. ,

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China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932
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China's Trial by Fire

By Donald A. Jordan ,

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Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise
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Old Shanghai

By Lynn Pan ,

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The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai
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The Jacquinot Safe Zone

By Marcia R. Ristaino ,

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Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China
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Shanghai Tai Chi

By Hanchao Lu ,

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Remembering Shanghai
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Remembering Shanghai

By Isabel Sun Chao , Claire Chao ,

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