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Extract from Sky high to Shanghai pp. 258-329, by Frank Clune; Chapter XXIII in "Chinese"
Shanghai is the most modern and dynamic city in China. In preparation for hosting the World Expo 2010, a World's Fair in the grand tradition of international fairs and expositions, the megalopolis embarked on an overhaul to transform itself from the "Pearl of the Orient" into the "City of the Future." Here, the world's tallest buildings soar, the planet's longest bridges span toxic waterways, and the fastest train on earth rockets the city from its storied past toward a future that seems, by turns, either as bright or as hideous as the lights that set the hazy sky aglow each night. At a time when interest in China has seen a sharp increase that shows no signs of abating, Shanghai places China's development and its effects on the world into context by explaining how the country arrived where it is today and why it is building massive infrastructure projects with tremendous social and environmental impact. Shanghai provides an intimate look inside a mega-city heaving with change and offers essential insight into the challenges of remaining human in an increasingly urbanized world.
Burnt out hacker Cad Caldwell is on the verge of committing nanobot-induced suicide in a cramped Union capsule hotel when a mysterious package arrives from Tokyo. Inside, a sleek black computer console unlike anything he has ever seen before. The console is a lifeline from someone high up in the Yakuza food chain and the sender wants Caldwell to do a job. The devil, however, is in the details. Before long, Caldwell finds out that his Japanese client is dead and that he has become a moving target running from the long arm of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest Yakuza faction. But help is at hand, in the form of a Faustian bargain from the surgically-enhanced head of a secret Union electronic warfare unit who claims to hold the key to Caldwell's blocked memories. To get his memories back, Caldwell must use the console to hack into the core of a secretive new network deep in the heart of New China.
By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as the last resort for tens of thousands of Jews desperate to escape Hitler's "Final Solution." Against this backdrop, 11-year-old Ursula Bacon and her family made the difficult 8,000-mile voyage to Shanghai, with its promise of safety. But instead of a storybook China, they found overcrowded streets teeming with peddlers, beggars, opium dens, and prostitutes. Amid these abysmal conditions, Ursula learned of her own resourcefulness and found within herself the fierce determination to survive.
Journalist and researcher Murray reviews the reporting on Japanese imperial aggression by the Australian mass circulation media in the years between Japanese attack on the Manchurian capital of Mukden in 1931 and the defeat of British and Australian forces by the Japanese in Singapore in 1942, which "was the final event that shocked a.
The story takes place on the China coast during World War II. A freighter, sailing offshore under the Panamanian flag and laden with war materiel, intercepts the stunning news of Pearl Harbor. The two young American officers, Captain Henry Budrow and Third Mate David Kopel, are shocked to find themselves in enemy waters. This is the saga of their wartime exploits: a sea battle for the cargo, their capture, the Captain's imprisonment and David's internment in Shanghai. With odds against them, they escape, plan and execute a series of fiery attacks upon Japanese military targets. It is also the story of Kate, a lovely and spirited young English girl who, torn from her reception desk at the British Embassy, is forced to live out the long war years in the internment camp. Kate and a thousand fellow Allied prisoners face their long ordeal with courage and endurance. The two men compete for Kate's affections, carry out their strikes against the Japanese with ingenuity and daring. Their final stratagem: a spy mission into Japanese waters on a Chinese junk, is thwarted by Fat Man, the second atom bomb, dropped on Nagasaki.
Presents information on accommodations, restaurants, cultural sites, shopping, and nightlife in Beijing and Shanghai.