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Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s ambitious new work, Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments presents a chronicle of Shanghai’s interactions with the outside world through a series of 25-year snapshots in time.

CIB caught up with the University of California-Irvine professor at the Shanghai Literary Festival last month to discover mo ......freshing title is that it contains too few photos to illustrate his points – if only its photograph selection were as extensive as its 30-plus page bibliography and suggested reading list.

Nonetheless, it’s a book well worth reading, if only for the important final question it raises: is Shanghai’s future being created or just revisited?    
             
224pp/Routledge/USD 39.95