Shanghai: A History in Photographs, 1842 - Today
A History in Photographs, 1842 - Today
$71.84
- Paperback
504 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2011
Summary
The modern city of Shanghai rose up from truly ‘muddy’ origins, both in the soft subsoil its foundations were build upon and its early economy based on a trade in opium, or ‘foreign mud’. Forced open to the British by the unequal Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Shanghai did what it does best- it beat the odds to become a ‘bawdy and gaudy’ metropolis that, 168 years later, commands a place in the contemporary imagination unlike any other city.
Despite civil war, invasion, revolution and fam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780670080908 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 067008090X |
| Author: | Karen Smith, Liu Heung Shing |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 504 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 2.92kg |
| Dimensions: | 341mm x 257mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
Karen Smith
Liu Heung Shing was born in Hong Kong in 1952, and is a photojournalist with a career spanning more than twenty years. In 1992, Liu became the first ethnic Chinese person to win a Pulitzer Prize, sharing it for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union. With international assignments for the Associated Press and Time magazine to his name, Liu is the author of China After Mao (Penguin, 1983) and China- Portrait of a Country (Taschen, 2008).
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