Shanghai Author:Christoper New Shanghai is a magnificent, panoramic novel that marks the beginning of a remarkable writer's career. — Shanghai, at the turn of the centruy, was the key to China; a teeming city of Chinese ruled by foreigners; a place where the immensely wealthy European taipans vied with one another for preeminence, the criminal gangs wielded vast power and ever... more »y Chinese citizen paid homage to both. It is to this complex and seductive city, shimmering in the heat and staggering under the riches brought by the opium trade, that John Denton comes in 1903.
With this magnificent novel Christopher New joins the ranks of the great storytellser, those writers who - like James Mitchner and James Clavell - bring history alive, draw characters we care about and keep us enthralled from first page to last.« less