Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. 2008. Maps, colour as well as black and white photographic illustrations, 149pp, bibliography, paperback. The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West. This book provides a glimpse into that world with a mish-mash of photos, newspaper clippings, cartoons and writings to..... More
Edgecliff. Impact Press. 2017. Colour and black and white illustrations, 65pp, paperback, 20 x 12.5cm. Shanghai's Nanjing Road is internationally famous for its iconic art deco department stores. These stores are not just about shopping. They are not just about selling modern goods from around the world. They are about..... More
United Kingdom. Orion Publishing Co., 2020. Maps, xi + 300pp, paperback. "As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and discovered a country amid..... More
Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020. Paperback. This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century. The book interweaves personal encounters with records of the democracy movement in Shanghai, revealing a vast outpouring of grievances..... More
Hong Kong. Joint Publishing. 2008. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 285 pages, index, bibliography, very good copy in paperback. Shanghai in the 1920's and 30's was a daring experiment in what it meant to be modern. Its taste for the new was everywhere apparent in its visual culture..... More
United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 2017. 336pp, paperback. 'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz..... More
