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China Faces West
Odyssey
March 2006
On Sale: March 19, 2007
152 pages
ISBN: 9622177727
EAN: 9789622177727
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Non-Fiction
Shanghai's landmark waterfront, the Bund, once the "Wall
Street of Asia," is again in the limelight as a charismatic
world-class destination for life's finest pleasures. This
book tells the story of the making of the Bund: from its
beginnings as a muddy foreshore and its conversion into a
fine esplanade in the latter half of the 19th century, when
its infamous "Public Gardens" barred entry to most Chinese,
to its cosmopolitan reinvention with the dawning of the
millennium. The main focus is on the vibrant years of the
1920s and 1930s when most of the Bund's monumental edifices
were built as a lasting testament to the city's commercial
success and symbolized the city's passage to sophistication
and modernity. This book goes far beyond the facades of the
buildings, examining the fascinating historical and social
context of this area and profiling the many key figures and
organizations that made the Bund in years gone by and that
are remodeling it today.
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