Michael Dillon is a historian of China whose work focuses on modern Chinese history, politics and society. In his new book, Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City, he traces the city’s development from a small fishing village into China’s wealthiest metropolis and one of its most important financial centres. The book explores Shanghai’s central place in Chinese history: from the foreign concessions of the nineteenth century, to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party, war
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