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Shanghai (1842-1949)
Stella Dong, author of Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City, (HarperCollins Publishers) will present an overview of this unique metropolis starting with its modern beginnings in 1842 as a treat port and funnel for the British opium trade in China and ending with the Communist triumph in 1949.