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Old Shanghai and the clash of revolution /
Life in Shanghai played out against a backdrop of shifting political maneuvers until World War II burned off the patina that had made 'Old Shanghai' a world unto itself. In this personal history we follow one man through Japan's conquest of Shanghai in 1937 to the Chinese civil war an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Childhood of Genghua in a capitalist family
- Life little Genghua remembered under Japanese occupation
- How Chinese people keep their festivals before 1949
- Life of Wu family before Communist Party takes over Shanghai
- The first two political movements have no effect on Wu family
- How capitalists get first financial blow & how Genghua fares in middle school
- Genghua's friend returns to Germany & capitalists get second financial blow
- Anti-rightist movement has little effect on Wu family
- The great leap-forward & steel-making movement
- Genghua learns English from some old scholars & makes new friends
- Tours in West-Suburb Park & to Suzhou City
- Genghua makes more friends & Mrs. Wu's afraid to bribe the policeman
- Capitalists get final financial blow in Cultural Revolution
- Rebels seize power of local governments & armed fights begin the nation over
- How Wu family fares in later period of Cultural Revolution
- Wu family seeks help for permits to Hong Kong & Lin Biao dies
- Genghua starts to translate classics & Cultural Revolution ends
- Genghua gets jobs & shows his talent in English teaching
- Genghua's friend Bai helps to get permits for his mother and brother to go to Hong Kong
- Genghua gets married
- How Genghua and his wife live and work
- Genghua publishes his first book & has a daughter
- Genghua and his family go to the United States.