Shanghai '37
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Book Overview
Vicki Baum, author of the acclaimed Grand Hotel, visited Shanghai in 1937. Her many friends there provided her with a wealth of information about China's convoluted politics, and the secret life and unique personalities of Shanghai--material she used as the basis of Shanghai '37. The hotel depicted in the novel was the Cathay, which, on August 14, 1937, following the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, was attacked by a bomb. This incident, known as...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195838769
ISBN13:9780195838763
Release Date:January 1986
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:629 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.1" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
First class second rate
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This is not first rate literature, for the literati and erotomanics will surely find no insights of interest here. But it brings a given time and place to life so well that it deserves to be read, and reread, and loved. Here too, a heretical thought could be reinforced: the characters seem more modern than we are...
This book stands the test of time.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
She was reusing her successful formula but this is my favourite of her novels. Interesting description of China before the revolution. Baum deserves to be rediscovered.
A masterpiece
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Many very different characters will meet at the Shangai Hotel... A Japanese businessman; A Russian aventurière; A Chinese rickshaw coolie; An American couple; A Chinese millionaire; Two Jewish refugies from Germany.Every page of this novel is spellbinding.
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