Modern Shanghai

21 books

A Study of the History of the Shanghai Sand-Boat Shipping Industry in the Qing Dynasty cover
Rating 3.8
A Study of the History of the Shanghai Sand-Boat Shipping Industry in the Qing Dynasty 松浦章 / 杨蕾 / 王亦铮 / 董科 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023 Matsuura Akira's A Study of the History of Shanghai Sand-Boat Shipping in the Qing Dynasty extensively collects materials preserved in China, Japan, a…
Collected Classic Works of Modern Shanghai-Style TCM Master Wang Yiren · Volume on the Elucidation of TCM Classics (Part Two) cover
Rating 3.8
Collected Classic Works of Modern Shanghai-Style TCM Master Wang Yiren · Volume on the Elucidation of TCM Classics (Part Two) 王春艳 / Yang Kewei / Zhu Bin / 杨鑫 Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers · 2026 This book is one title in the series Collected Classic Works of Wang Yiren, a Modern Shanghai-School Master of Chinese Medicine. This volume comprises…
Their Memories of Shanghai cover
Rating 3.7
Their Memories of Shanghai 徐静波 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Mysterious spies, celebrated journalists, self-proclaimed revolutionaries, antiwar Japanese… each converges on a turbulent modern Shanghai, seeking to…
A Century of Concession Memories cover
Rating 2.8
A Century of Concession Memories 罗泰琪 · 2026 This is a work of documentary history that surveys the foreign concessions across China as a whole. Arranged chronologically and grounded in historica…
A History of Shanghai (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
A History of Shanghai (2 Volumes) 兰宁 / 库龄 / 张新 / Li Yan Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press · 2024 The original edition of this book is the English-language History of Shanghai published in 1921, an early study of Shanghai. It had not appeared in Ch…
A Study of Shanghai's Rickshaw Pullers: A Preliminary Exploration of the Potential Revolutionary Force in a Modern Central City cover
Rating 3.5
A Study of Shanghai's Rickshaw Pullers: A Preliminary Exploration of the Potential Revolutionary Force in a Modern Central City 罗国辉 Shanghai Far East Publishers · 2024 “Rickshaw! Rickshaw!” In the modern, bustling city of Shanghai, the call for a rickshaw could be heard everywhere. The rickshaw puller racing madly ah…
Lives of the Figures of the Tushanwan Painting Studio cover
Rating 3.8
Lives of the Figures of the Tushanwan Painting Studio 上海市徐汇区文物局 / 张伟 / 张晓依 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 Richly illustrated, this book presents a group portrait and the historical trajectory of the figures of the Tushanwan Art School, "the cradle of Chine…
Collected Letters of Shanghai Bankers (Text Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
Collected Letters of Shanghai Bankers (Text Edition) 邢建榕 / 何品 / 彭晓亮 Shanghai Far East Publishers · 2022 Part of the 2020 Shanghai Culture Development Fund book publishing project "Continued Compilation of Archival Sources on Modern Chinese Financial Chan…
The Last Days of Shanghai's Native Banks cover
Rating 3.7
The Last Days of Shanghai's Native Banks 张徐乐 Shanghai Far East Publishers · 2022 Shanghai's native money houses were a quintessential indigenous financial institution of modern China. Over more than two centuries of continuous oper…
The Joint Operation Institution of the Four Northern Banks cover
Rating 3.7
The Joint Operation Institution of the Four Northern Banks 何品 / 张慧 Shanghai Far East Publishers · 2022 Part of the 2020 Shanghai Cultural Development Fund book publishing special fund project "Continued Compilation of Archival Materials on Modern Chines…
Gao Fengchi's Diary cover
Rating 4.0
Gao Fengchi's Diary 叶新 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 In the history of modern and contemporary publishing, Gao Fengchi is an important figure who has been overshadowed. This book compiles the only surviv…
Two Kinds of Documents on the Shanghai Volunteer Corps cover
Rating 3.9
Two Kinds of Documents on the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Xu Tao SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The book consists of two parts. The first is a translation of Eighty-Five Years of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, which chronicles the long evolution o…
The Translation of Foreign Things: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai cover
Rating 4.5
The Translation of Foreign Things: Horse Racing, Greyhound Racing, and Jai Alai in Modern Shanghai 张宁 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2022 To explore the many phenomena that may arise in cultural transfer and the historical forces behind them, this book takes "the translation of foreign t…
City of Health: A Compilation of Typical Cases of 'Healthy Shanghai' in the New Era cover
Rating 3.0
City of Health: A Compilation of Typical Cases of 'Healthy Shanghai' in the New Era 上海市健康促进委员会办公室《新民晚报》社 · 2020 This book collects 140 case studies of Healthy Shanghai initiatives in the new era, including 60 exemplary cases and 80 outstanding cases. They cover …
Lasting Legacy of Famous Physicians cover
Rating 3.8
Lasting Legacy of Famous Physicians 黄瑛 / Liang Shanghua · 2020 In modern Shanghai, famous physicians gathered and schools flourished, giving rise to many traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, educational institu…
Complete Collection of Journey to the West: New Journey to the West cover
Rating 1.8
Complete Collection of Journey to the West: New Journey to the West 冷血 · 2025 Though the New Journey to the West keeps the names and some objects of Journey to the West, its content is altogether different. In the book the all-p…
A History of Advertising in Shanghai cover
Rating 3.9
A History of Advertising in Shanghai 许正林 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Taking the types of advertising and the constituent elements of advertising activities as its entry point, this book traces the emergence, evolution, …
A Compilation of Medical Journals cover
Rating 3.4
A Compilation of Medical Journals 黄瑛 / Liang Shanghua / 康欣欣 Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers · 2020 This book collects 31 traditional Chinese medicine periodicals published and distributed between 1840 and 1949 within the current administrative bound…
A Study of the Modern Shanghai Chinese Merchants' Securities Market cover
Rating 3.7
A Study of the Modern Shanghai Chinese Merchants' Securities Market 刘志英 Shanghai Far East Publishers · 2019 The establishment of the modern securities market is not only an important marker in the process of capitalist modernization but also a manifestation …
Medical Advertisements cover
Rating 3.7
Medical Advertisements 章原 Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers · 2020 Shanghai was the birthplace of modern medical and pharmaceutical advertising. The medical and pharmaceutical advertisements of modern Shanghai, in all…