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Shanghai : China's gateway to modernity

Marie-Claire Bergère

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"Originally published in French under the title Histoire de Shanghai, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2002."

Contents

Foreigners in the town (1843-1853)
Local diplomacy and national policy (1853-1864)
The birth of Shanghai capitalism (1860-1911)
The kaleidoscope of Shanghaian society
The model represented by the concessions
The 1911 revolution
The metropolis (1912-1937)
The golden age of Shanghaian capitalism (1919-1937)
The revolutionary centre (1919-1937)
Order and crime (1927-1937)
Haipai and the ideal of modernity
The end of a world (1937-1952)
The war, the occupation, and the end of international status
Backward into revolution (1945-1952)
Shanghai under communism
Shanghai in disgrace under the Maoist regime
Shanghai's rebirth (1990-2000).

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