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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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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...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Paul French
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 313 pages) : illustrations, portraits
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9789888052097, 9888052098, 9622098029, 9789622098022
- OCLC
- ocn609337452
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index.
- English.
- 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