Book 1999

Beyond the Neon Lights

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Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 1999

Social conditions
Social life and customs
Economic conditions
Shanghai (china)
China, social conditions
China, social life and customs
China, economic conditions
China, history, 20th century

The writer Aldous Huxlev (1894-1963), who traveled the world extensively, exclaimed in 1926 that none of the cities he had ever seen so overwhelmingly impressed him with its teeming humanity as Shanghai.