Shanghai Early Learning religious and cultural history

religious and cultural history

and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness

middle-class people with banal yearnings for French doors and a new deck

starting again might just mean the end of the road

Your mother

Shanghai Early Learning religious and cultural historyShanghai at the turn of the twentieth century was the place to be. Opium was all the rage, parties were wild, and decadence was a way of life. Journalist Stella Dong looks back on a city that in its heyday was a thrilling combination of Las Vegas, the Wild West, Paris in the '20s, and Chicago during Prohibition. She captures the excitement of its most notorious years the decades before Mao's revolution when the city was populated with bankers,