About the book, from the publisher:This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.Read a brief history of Shanghai's future, part of an essay based on the themes of Global Shanghai.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His other publications include China's Brave New World and Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai. He is a regular contributor to academic journals and has also written for a variety of general interest periodicals, including Newsweek, The Nation, the TLS, New Left Review, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. He also writes at The China Beat.
The Page 69 Test: China's Brave New World.
The Page 99 Test: Global Shanghai, 1850–2010.
--Marshal Zeringue
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