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Champions Day

Audiobook
Nonfiction: History
Unabridged   11 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/18/2020

Champions Day

The End of Old Shanghai

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684576197
Digital Download ISBN:9781684579112

Summary

How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.

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How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.

It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China's wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation that had seen Shanghai’s rise to global prominence. But it is the racetrack that attracts the largest crowd of all. At the center of the International Settlement, the heart of Western colonization—but also of Chinese progressivism, art, commerce, cosmopolitanism, and celebrity—Champions Day unfolds, drawing tens of thousands of Chinese spectators and Europeans alike to bet on the horses.

In a sharp and lively snapshot of the day's events, James Carter recaptures the complex history of Old Shanghai. Champions Day is a kaleidoscopic portrait of city poised for revolution.

Reviews/Praise

"A satisfying juggling act of academic research hand engaging popular history." -Kirkus Reviews

"Carter creates an engaging and accessible lens through which to examine Shanghai's complicated history." -Booklist

Author Bio

James Carter, professor of history at Saint Joseph's University, is the author of three books on Chinese history and is a Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He lives in Ewing, New Jersey.