Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai

Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai

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Publisher Description

How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.

It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China’s founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China’s wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation that had seen Shanghai’s rise to global prominence. But it is the racetrack that attracts the largest crowd of all. At the center of the International Settlement, the heart of Western colonization—but also of Chinese progressivism, art, commerce, cosmopolitanism, and celebrity—Champions Day unfolds, drawing tens of thousands of Chinese spectators and Europeans alike to bet on the horses.

In a sharp and lively snapshot of the day’s events, James Carter recaptures the complex history of Old Shanghai. Champions Day is a kaleidoscopic portrait of city poised for revolution.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2020
June 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
27.7
MB

Customer Reviews

han juan ,

A wonderful look into a different era

I heard on the Barbarians at the Gate podcast when the author was interviewed how he had to find a balance between the ickiness of colonial Shanghai and the fabulousness of International Shanghai. He achieved this, providing fantastic yet tempered views into the lives of Shanghailanders.

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