For the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; For the desperate a port of last resort.

A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; A thick slice of hell denounced from the pulpit.

The start of a journey for many; The end of the road for some.

A place to find fame, or to seek anonymity; Rogues, chancers, showgirls, criminals…

For so many people from so many lands, there was one phrase that sent a tingle of hope or a shiver of anticipation down every spine: "DESTINATION SHANGHAI"



Autorentext

By Paul French



Inhalt

Introduction - Sojourners of an Interesting Sort

1) The Hunt for Eugene O'Neill: How America's Most Famous Playwright Went to Shanghai, Fooled Everyone and had a High Old Time of It (1928)

- Did He or Didn't He? - Andre Malraux (1931)

2) Nearly Snubbed by Shanghai - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (1929)

- The Collaborators - Marion, Don and Bert dream of a Nazi Shanghai (1941)

3) Louis L'Amour's Shanghai Gestures (1933)

- A Warm Welcome for Charlie Chan - Warner Oland (1936)

4) Two Poets Meet in Frenchtown - Langston Hughes and Irene West (1934)

- From Warsaw to Shanghai to Hollywood - Lyda Roberti (1930s)

5) The Beast Comes to Shanghai - Aleister Crowley (1906)

- A Dense, Rank, Richly Clotted Life - Aldous Huxley (1926)

6) The Zeitgeist Bookstore and Recruiting the Fifth Man - the Red Sojourners Agnes Smedley, Roger Hollis and Irene Weitemeyer (1929)

- Nina Barsamova - The White Russian Movie Queen of Shanghai (1933)

7) Weimar Germany on the Huangpu - Lily Flohr Will be Flattered to See You (1941)

- Florence Broadhurst Teaches Shanghai to Sing (1926)

8) Shanghai's Most Charming Gangster - Ely "The Swiss" Widler's Wild China Ride (1940)

- A Showgirl, Bloody Saturday and the Shrapnel Swing - Terese Rudolph (1937)

10) CC Julian's Last Refuge - How America's Biggest Ever Swindler Ended Up in Shanghai (1934)

Conclusion - Ye Shanghai

Titel
Destination Shanghai
EAN
9789887554714
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
19.04.2021
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
5.47 MB
Anzahl Seiten
340