Carl Crow, a tough old China hand [electronic resource] : the life, times and adventures of an American in Shanghai / Paul French.
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 gove...
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Table of 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.