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Description:In the mid-1800s, Zhang Songxian, the son of a shopkeeper from Nanxun, China, built a fortune in the silk and salt trades. Almost overnight, the Zhangs became one of China's richest and most influential families. Over the ensuing decades, a number of indelible figures in the family emerged, including Zhang Jingjiang, the crippled anarchist who became Chiang Kai-shek's mentor and China's "uncrowned emperor;" his beautiful, Western-raised daughters, whose romantic escapades enlivened Shanghai's gossip columns; and Zhang Shiming, the cultured bibliophile whose life of leisure was abruptly cut short by Shanghai's notorious gangsters in the 1920s. From a garbage dump purchased by "Great-Grandmother Gui" that became the "Great World," Shanghai's infamous pleasure palace; to the coded telegrams that would lead the family to become the primary financiers of the 1911 Chinese Revolution; to a buried treasure seized during the Cultural Revolution, the history of the Zhang family reflects the tulmultuous changes China has undergone over the past one and a half centuries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Zhangs from Nanxun: A One Hundred and Fifty Year Chronicle of a Chinese Family. To get started finding The Zhangs from Nanxun: A One Hundred and Fifty Year Chronicle of a Chinese Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 560

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: CF Press

Release: 2010

ISBN: 0692008454

Description: In the mid-1800s, Zhang Songxian, the son of a shopkeeper from Nanxun, China, built a fortune in the silk and salt trades. Almost overnight, the Zhangs became one of China's richest and most influential families. Over the ensuing decades, a number of indelible figures in the family emerged, including Zhang Jingjiang, the crippled anarchist who became Chiang Kai-shek's mentor and China's "uncrowned emperor;" his beautiful, Western-raised daughters, whose romantic escapades enlivened Shanghai's gossip columns; and Zhang Shiming, the cultured bibliophile whose life of leisure was abruptly cut short by Shanghai's notorious gangsters in the 1920s. From a garbage dump purchased by "Great-Grandmother Gui" that became the "Great World," Shanghai's infamous pleasure palace; to the coded telegrams that would lead the family to become the primary financiers of the 1911 Chinese Revolution; to a buried treasure seized during the Cultural Revolution, the history of the Zhang family reflects the tulmultuous changes China has undergone over the past one and a half centuries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Zhangs from Nanxun: A One Hundred and Fifty Year Chronicle of a Chinese Family. To get started finding The Zhangs from Nanxun: A One Hundred and Fifty Year Chronicle of a Chinese Family, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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