Shanghai – China`s Gateway to Modernity Bergère Lloyedau Hardback 9780804749046

ShanghaiChina's Gateway to Modernity\nAuthor(s): Marie-Claire Bergre, Janet LloyedAU\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804749046, 978-0804749046\nSynopsis\nShanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, eminent China scholar Marie-Claire Bergre takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the world in 1842 to narrate the city's tumultuous and unique course to the present. \n\n Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity is the first comprehensive history of Shanghai in any Western language. Divided into four parts, Bergre details Shanghai's beginnings as a treaty port in the mid-nineteenth century; its capitalist boom following the 1911 Revolution; the fifteen years of economic and soci.