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July 20 - July 26, 2000
New York writer Stella Dong made her name writing about the book industry for Publisher’s Weekly , but little did she realize that she would spend ten years working on her own newly released book, Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of the Decadent City, 1842-1949 (William Morrow; $27.50). After two contracts, much research and a slew of interviews in Shanghai, California, New York, Hong Kong and London, Dong has created an imminently accessible, and almost gossipy, history of the notorious treaty port, the “Paris of the Orient,” where British, French and American merchants traded everything from opium to arms and the ambitious and adventurous amassed power, made fortunes and then spent it in over-the-top hedonism on luxurious villas or stylish women. Quiet Storm Says Goodbye to the Cannery Get Wireless or Get Out: Wireless E-commerce and APIs Lead Editorial: S.F.'s District Elections
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