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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a British boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1077
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
The gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue and jealousies swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai ?flower houses,? where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 21 cm.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Swept up in a wave of violence when the Japanese Imperial Army tightens its stranglehold on the Shanghai refuge for thousands of desperate European Jews, surgeon Franz Adler falls in love with a nurse and endeavors to safeguard a refugee hospital.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
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Description
"Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances."
9) The Mao case
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hr., 42 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Offered a luxury vacation near Lake Tai, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the murder investigation of a manufacturing plant director who had been accused of polluting the once-beautiful lake, a case that implicates the leader of a local ecological group.
13) Shanghai triad
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1930s Shanghai, a teenage boy becomes involved in the criminal underworld after he's hired to be a servant for a nightclub singer and mistress of a Triad boss.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 672 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Chronicling the making of a dynasty, one of the great untold sagas of a gilded Jewish Baghdadi family who started from nothing, this riveting story shows how they built a vast empire through finance and trade that reached across three continents, and ultimately changed the destinies of nations.
15) Enigma of China
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In line for the top politic position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Asked to take the lead in a corruption investigation in which the principal figure and his family have already fled to the U.S., Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is charged to uncover the culprit's partners-in-crime and their organization.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper. Just when he thought life had settled into a pleasant routine, he is called back to Washington. His assignment: go undercover as the American ambassador for a massive Chinese multinational conglomerate, and learn the secrets of their powerful CEO Chen Qi, whom HQ believes to be a front man for the nearly uncrackable Chinese Intelligence, known as the Guoanbu.
Publisher
Distributed by Winstar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 pages cm
Description
"An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did." *** For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He was considered a potential rising star in the Party until, after...
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