Shanghai

Name: Shanghai
Brand: Yale University Press
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The Story of China's Most Dynamic City

By: Michael Dillon

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Hardcover | 30 June 2026 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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23.49 x 15.24

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A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries

Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wider world, the city has become the beating heart of Chinese capitalism, a place of initiative, confidence, and forward thinking. It is a city of stark contradictions, suffused with both extreme wealth and poverty, luxury living, and a highly organised criminal underworld.

Michael Dillon explores the full history of Shanghai, from its origins as a small fishing village to the bustling financial hub of today. The city has been central to some of the most turbulent events in China's modern history, from the British and French colonial concessions of the nineteenth century, to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party and its vital role in Chinese economics and politics today. Shanghai is a fascinating portrait of China's most dynamic city—and explores its future role in the country's development.

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