In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the tim...(展开全部)

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and ...(展开全部)

If you've never visited Shanghai, I should probably point out that most of the city doesn't look the way it does in these photographs. Of you know the city, you'll know that much of it still does. These are photographs of the Shanghai that will not survive the vision the city has for itself. That these homes, shops, lanes and buildings survived as long as they did, and in the w...(展开全部)

If you've never visited Shanghai, I should probably point out that most of the city doesn't look the way it does in these photographs. Of you know the city, you'll know that much of it still does. These are photographs of the Shanghai that will not survive the vision the city has for itself. That these homes, shops, lanes and buildings survived as long as they did, and in the w...(展开全部)

金宇澄，生于上海，祖籍吴江黎里，著有中短篇集《迷夜》、随笔集《洗牌年代》，主编《城市地图》、《飘泊在红海洋——我的大串联》等。现任《上海文学》常务副主编。

金宇澄，生于上海，祖籍吴江黎里，著有中短篇集《迷夜》、随笔集《洗牌年代》，主编《城市地图》、《飘泊在红海洋——我的大串联》等。现任《上海文学》常务副主编。

厄休拉·培根 1939年，厄休拉·培根和父母逃离纳粹德国，与18000名中欧难民一起抵达中国上海。这家人在日本控制的贫民区度过了战争年代的大部分时间。她在上海的时候，与一位年轻的难民结了婚，并于1947年来到美国，在丹佛定居，养育了两个孩子，实现了她的美国梦。现如今，厄休拉举办演讲、并经营着写作与出版的工作室，经常在妇女会议和其他教育活动中发表演讲。

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religi...(展开全部)