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

Product ID: 317832

Publication Date: 2007-02-15
Author(s):Paul French
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 324
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622098029
ISBN13: 9789622098022

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Weight	0.57 Kgs
Price:	HK$378.00

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'Shanghai resident Paul French has written a lively, exhaustive narrative account of the life and times of entrepreneur and Shanghai businessman Carl Crow. An absorbing story about a pioneering figure in transnational commercial capitalism during the first half of the twentieth century.' - Tani E. Barlow, Professor of History, University of Washington Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book - 400 Million Customers - that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom.

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