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Huang Jinrong: The Tycoon of Shanghai
Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press · 2012
This book profiles Huang Jinrong, a powerful underworld leader in modern Shanghai, tracing his life from a detective in the French Concession police f…
The Complete Biography of Du Yuesheng
Hubei People's Publishing House · 2012
The Complete Biography of Du Yuesheng (illustrated edition) is a long biography of Du Yuesheng, the "tycoon of Shanghai" in old Shanghai. Published by…
The Wasted Times
Jiangxi People's Publishing House · 2016
The Wasted Times is film director Cheng Er's first short-story collection, published in December 2016 by Jiangxi People's Publishing House and release…
Followers of Marco Polo
Jiuzhou Press · 2026
Followers of Marco Polo tells of early twentieth-century Shanghai, where the old China hand Carl Crow, while running his advertising business, encount…
Selected Classic Works of Mu Shiying (7-Volume Set)
· 2026
This set collects classic works by Mu Shiying, a representative writer of the New Sensationist school, fully presenting the distinctive aesthetics of …
Lisa's Sorrow
· 2026
Written in 1929, *Liza's Sorrow* centers on Liza, once a kind and pure Russian noblewoman who, after the October Revolution, flees to Shanghai and bec…
Mu Shiying's Famous Works: A Story on a Sheaf of Discarded Drafts in the Local News Column's Editorial Office
· 2025
This story unfolds through the distinctive perspective of a newspaper proofreader. Working in the editorial office every night, his greatest pleasure …
Hu Xian Investigates: Lu Ping's Victory
· 2024
If "failure is the mother of success," why do writers of detective fiction chronicle only the successes of great detectives and never their failures? …
Hu Xian Investigates: The Girl's Demon
· 2024
If "failure is the mother of success," why do writers of detective fiction chronicle only the successes of great detectives and never their failures? …
Collected Classic Works of Mao Dun (2 Volumes): Midnight + The Lin Family Shop
Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd. · 2023
This two-volume set brings together Mao Dun's most representative novel, Midnight, and his selected novellas and short stories, The Lin Family Shop, o…
Four Hundred Million Customers
Jiuzhou Press · 2022
On the streets of Shanghai in the first half of the twentieth century, billboards for Carl Crow, Inc. were everywhere. The company's founder, Carl Cro…
The Shuffle Era (Jin Yucheng's Classic Essays, the Sourcebook for Blossoms)
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2021
Shanghai is a sponge, absorbing everything clean, like all memories, as if they never happened. The Shuffle Era is writer Jin Yucheng's classic essay …
A Record at Sixty
Jiuzhou Press · 2021
As a significant work of sinology, *A Record of Sixty Years* is not only the personal history of Uchiyama Kanzō—a memoir of the sixty years from his b…
Shanghai Concessions and the Lyceum Theatre
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019
Situated in the old French Concession, the Lyceum Theatre became an artistic and cultural temple of the Shanghai International Settlement in the first…
Shanghai: Shanghai Charm Under the Red Lights and Green Wine
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2023
This collection of 40 essays on Shanghai brings together classic writings on the city by leading modern and contemporary authors—among them Shanghai n…
Posters: A Pictorial Record of Shanghai, 1843–1949
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
Taking the history of poster advertising as its starting point, this book recounts the development of poster advertisements after Shanghai's opening a…
Dream Lover: Collection of Chen Gexin's Art Songs
Shanghai Music Publishing House · 2018
Chen Gang is one of China's foremost contemporary composers. His father, Chen Gexin, was a renowned composer in the first half of twentieth-century Ch…
Wind from the Sea: An Illustrated Biography of Eileen Chang
China Overseas Publishing House · 2024
Written by Han Ying, Wind from the Sea: A Pictorial Biography of Eileen Chang introduces Eileen Chang, born into a declining aristocratic family, bril…
Infatuation in Troubled Times
· 2016
The world of 1928 was chaotic and hazy, like layer upon layer of impenetrable fog, the swirling mist making it impossible to guess what lay hidden ben…
A Century of Chinese Detective Fiction, Volume 1: The Swallow of Jiangnan
Beijing Normal University Press · 2024
The first volume of A Century of Chinese Detective Fiction (1908–2011) collects seven works by Cheng Xiaoqing, a celebrated writer of modern Chinese d…