Author: Professor Wang Ronghua
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Keywords: shanghai, series, city, guide
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9812438076
ISBN-13: 9789812438072
This is not merely a tourist guide about Shanghai, but rather a pocket encyclopedia all "new Shanghainese" will find helpful. It contains abundant information on all aspects of economic and social activity in the city. It aims to present a complete picture of Shanghai by describing in detail the city’s unique geographical location, its commercial development, its superb investment environment, its coherent yet diverse society of migrants, its flexible, vital culture, and its upbeat spirit as a city.
Author: Ji Xiaohui
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Keywords: shanghai, series, finance
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9812408800
ISBN-13: 9789812408808
Shanghai was once the international financial center of the Far East. Today, a national development strategy has been put in place that will once again transform it into a modern international financial center. This book presents the reader with a comprehensive and objective account of the current status of Shanghai’s finance industry including such areas as banking, securities futures, insurance, inter-bank lending and borrowing, bonds, foreign exchange, the stock exchange, futures, and gold.
Author: Streetwise Ma
Publisher: Streetwise Ma
Keywords: shanghai, map, street, china, center, laminated, streetwise, city
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1931257337
ISBN-13: 9781931257336
Streetwise Shanghai Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Shanghai, China - Folding pocket size travel map with subway & metro mapThis map covers the following areas:Main Shanghai Map 1:52,000Downtown Map / Old Town Map / Pudong Map inset 1:16,500French Concession Map inset 1:16,500Shanghai Subway Map inset (map not drawn to scale)Clear, concise, convenient STREETWISE Shanghai is the map that clarifies a complicated city. From Pudong to Hongqiao, this city center street map of Shanghai makes it simple to get around either by foot or by the fast and easy subway system. Using STREETWISE Sh
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: novel, girls, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812980530
ISBN-13: 9780812980530
Book Description For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love--a stunning new novel from Lisa See about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearls parents arrange for their daughters to marry Gold Mountain men who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at An
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: novel, girls, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1400067111
ISBN-13: 9781400067114
For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love--a stunning new novel from Lisa See about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry "Gold Mountain men" who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel’s
Author: Bartle Bull
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: station, shanghai
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-12-21
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0786714867
ISBN-13: 9780786714865
A masterful storyteller at the top of his form, Bartle Bull follows the successes of his popular Africa trilogy?A Caf on the Nile, The White Rhino Hotel, and The Devil?s Oasis?with a rousing historical adventure. Shanghai Station is a compelling tale of political terror and personal vengeance that unfolds in 1918 in China?s colorful, turbulent port city of Shanghai. Well-born Alexander Karlov arrives in Shanghai with a mission, for the Bolsheviks have brutally killed his mother and abducted his twin sister. Vengeance commands Alexander?s soul. It also entangles him in perilous alliances?with
