City Rising: From the Holy Mountain by David Rotenberg

City Rising: From the Holy Mountain by David Rotenberg

The first book in the>Shanghai Quartet - City Rising - starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the FIRST EMPEROR the most powerful man the world to that time had ever known bequeaths a talisman to his three trusted followers: the BodyGuard, his favorite Courtesan and his Head Confucian - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth for the next 2500 years of a city at the Bend in the River - Shanghai. The warning from the First Emperor before he commits suicide is to watch for the White Ships on Water - and so the progeny of the three who are entrusted with the Tusk do - and then - in 1841 - they arrive. British Men of War ships - and Opium.

City Rising tells the story of two destitute Baghdadi boys who become opium lords - and the battles against the powerful British Opium companies - and the boys' eventual love of the City at the Bend in the River - Shanghai.

Rotenberg, David: - David Rotenberg has been a master acting teacher for over 25 years. He has directed on Broadway, in major regional theatres, for television, and he has published eleven novels. The five Zhong Fong novels are under consideration by HBO; his best selling historical fiction novel, SHANGHAI, has been optioned by Darius Films; his trilogy, THE JUNCTION CHRONICLES, has been optioned by Don Kurt who produced the Emmy award winning series Justified. David has taught at York University, the National Theatre School of Canada, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the University of Cape Town, and Princeton. He is the Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Professional Actors Lab in Toronto where students from as far afield as Turkey, South Africa, the USA, Hong Kong and the UK come to study acting. He also teaches in Los Angeles. He directed the first Canadian play in the People's Republic of China. Recently he directed at Penn State and opened a new professional theater in Toronto with his adaptation and direction of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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ISBN 13	9781998779086
ISBN 10	1998779084
Title	City Rising: From the Holy Mountain
Author	David Rotenberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	At Bay Press
Year published	2023-12-20
Number of pages	350
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