| Description |
1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
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 Business -- 14. 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 |
| Summary |
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. In the 1930s Crow wrote a pioneering book - 400 Million Customers - that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Crow, Carl, 1883-1945
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Crow, Carl, 1883-1945
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Crow, Carl, 1883-1945 fast |
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Americans -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography
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Journalists -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Americans
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Journalists
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Manners and customs
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Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century
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China -- Shanghai
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United States
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History
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789888052097 |
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9888052098 |
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1282708716 |
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9781282708716 |
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9786612708718 |
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6612708719 |
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