Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 David Perkins she commits treason simply by

she commits treason simply by breathing

heir to her father's title

had a close friendship with Jung and Hesse at the end of their lives

a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game

Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 David Perkins she commits treason simply byTransformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao's cultural revolution was a city like no other, redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor. Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger than life character in a fantastic novel.