Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom
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Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom by Carl Crow
Originally published in 1940, this is Carl Crow s entertaining autobiography, the story of his more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. This book is a tale of East meets West set in the wild and heady days of inter-war China. It is an account of how two cultures clashed, bickering over business deals and social norms as they tried to find a way to live with each other.
Carl Crow was a journalist and the founder of China's first American-run English-language newspaper, the China Press. He is the author of 400 Million Customers and Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom. Paul French is a Shanghai-based editor, writer, and analyst. He is the author of Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand, North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula, and Through the Looking Glass and the coauthor of Fat China and Oil and Water.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789889963330 |
| ISBN 10 | 9889963337 |
| Title | Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom |
| Author | Carl Crow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SinoMedia Holdings (HK) Limited |
| Year published | 2007-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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