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CARL CROW-A TOUGH OLD CHINA HAND
THE LIFE, TIMES, AND ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN IN SHANGHAI |
| By: |
Paul French |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9622098029 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789622098022 |
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| Publisher: |
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2006 |
| Pages: |
324 |
| Description: |
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. This work presents his story which gives us a view of Shanghai and China during those years. It is aimed at those with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period. |
| Synopsis: |
The first biography of Carl Crow - one of the best-known and most successful Americans to live and work in Shanghai between the wars. After a successful career as a newspaperman and the proprietor of China's largest advertising agency in the 1930s he went on to write over a dozen books on China including the best selling series of anecdotes of his time in Shanghai: Four Hundred Million Customers. |
| Publication: |
Hong Kong |
| Imprint: |
Hong Kong University Press |
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Returnable |