Biography of 10 english writers in shanghai
Biography of 10 english writers in shanghai university...
Shanghai Novels
Your new book City of Devils immerses us in the good, bad and ugly of s Shanghai, a city you lived in for twenty years and have written about extensively.
What is the nature of your obsession with Shanghai and its history?
Biography of 10 english writers in shanghai
Shanghai is not just another Chinese city, historically. It is a completely unique city in the world, in that it was, for a nearly a hundred years from –, an International Settlement. It was a completely open city. You didn’t need a passport to go there; you didn’t need a visa.
It wasn’t a colony like Hong Kong or Singapore; it ran itself.
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But it was also a possession of imperialism, created after the First Opium War by the British.
“It was a completely open city. You didn’t need a passport to go there; you didn’t need a visa.”
Despite that, it was also a place of refuge for so many people, not only for Chinese people escaping from poverty, flood, drought, disease; but also for the Russians that fled the Bolshevik Revolution in And, in th