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Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai

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The first biography of Carl Crow - one of the best-known and most successful Americans to live and work in Shanghai between the wars. After a successful career as a newspaperman and the proprietor of China's largest advertising agency in the 1930s he went on to write over a dozen books on China including the best selling series of anecdotes of his time in Shanghai: Four Hundred Million Customers.

Title Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai / Paul French.
Publisher Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date 2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-299) and index.
English
Content Contents
Names and Spelling
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: A Quarter Century in China
1. From the Mid-West to the China Coast
2. The China Press Man
3. Living at the End of the Wires
4. The Collapse of the Qing Dynasty and Opportunities Abound
5. Intrigue in Tokyo and World War
6. From Fruit Rancher to Spy
7. Sun Yat-sen and the Biography That Never Was
8. Four Hundred Million Customers and Bringing Billboards to China
9. Getting Friendly with Warlords
10. Rumblings in Shanghai
11. The Life of a China Coast Man
12. Fear in Shanghai, the Generalissimo and Three Stripes on the Arm
13. Back in the Newspaper Business14. The New Republic and the Soong Dynasty
15. More Skirmishes and a City in Flux
16. Swallowing Like Whales, Nibbling Like Silkworms
17. Final Days in the City of the Dead
18. Business Over: The Escape from Shanghai
19. Through the Back Door into China
20. Tea with Madame Chiang and Whisky with Zhou En-lai
21. War Service and Being Proved Right
22. The Final Prolific Years
EPILOGUE: Gone but Not Forgotten
Notes
Select Bibliography and Further Reading
Appendix
Index
Extent 1 online resource (324 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2006.
National Library system number 997010704770105171
MARC RECORDS
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