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Title: New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City by Pamela Yatsko ISBN: 0-471-84352-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read if you are thiniking of China
Comment: I had noticed the name of Pamela Yatsko long before she published this book, since the Chinese authorities had translated and published her China-related reviews on the Reference News-a local media circulated among China's officials-from time to time. (I wish the writer had been paid for those translated reviews.)
Reading this book is a really enjoyable experience.Actually I was very surprised of her deep understanding of the city and China's culture. For example, the story of two old gentlemen and the Shanghai Museum: they took the blame first, then, the city take the pride of their success. It's just a typical way of making things happen!-under this government. And, frankly speaking, she just know much more of the night life here than I, a local Shanghaiese.
If you are thinking of China, whatever which aspect you are thinking of, I would recommend this book to you. You will know the place, know what's happening here, know how it has happen.
Shanghai Reader Zhonghua Yu
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Primer on China and China Trade
Comment: Pamela Yatsko's book on Shanghai is much more level-headed, business-like and less reliant on personal anecdotes compared to books written by other journalists on Asia (such as China Wakes by N.Y. Times reporters Kristof and WuDunn). Although "New Shanghai" does contain some interesting "field work" and interviews made easier through Yatsko' s personal connections in Shanghai.
I especially appreciate the way the information was given with an appropriate mixture of open-source/public information, empirical data and personal experiences - a balanced view of both the social and political aspects of the life of the city of Shanghai through a detailed description of the bureaucratic mechanisms that influence events; not to mention the discrepancies that often arise between the public perceptions and private experiences of people who had to deal with myriad regulations and changing societal norms that are an integral part of their work.
It's important that Yatsko states unambiguous opinions about Shanghai, and by extension China, and then backs them up with facts on the ground. Because these opinions do not always conform with the prevailing wisdom on a potentially powerful China and the China trade, they help to instill a somewhat contrary, but much needed, dose of skepticism in the current state and direction of socio-economic development in China.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not the obvious
Comment: Yatko's book far exceeded my expectations. Well argued, carefully thought out and with an excellent thesis. It is easy for old Shanghai residents (such as myself) to revel in an Old Shanghai nostalgia that has long ceased to exist. Yatsko highlights and illustrates many points that we overlooked, ignored or never knew in the first place. Valuable reading for anyone planning to do business in China or simply interested in this great city.
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Title: Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 by Stella Dong ISBN: 0060934816 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai by James Farrer ISBN: 0226238717 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Chinese Business Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in the People's Republic of China (A Revised and Updated Edition of "Dealing with the Chinese") by Scott D. Seligman ISBN: 0446673870 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Insight Compact Guide Shanghai (Shanghai) by Sharon Owyang, Insight Guides ISBN: 0887298192 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Shanghai (Shanghai, 1st Ed) by Bradley Mayhew ISBN: 0864425074 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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