New Shanghai : The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City

No other city epitomises the dynamic growth of China more than Shanghai. Weaving anecdotes with analysis, Pamela Yatsko's lively narrative addresses key aspects of the city's rebirth. There is the building spree of the 1990s and how it turned into a massive glut; Shanghai's resurrection as a financial centre; the growing divide between rich and poor; the return of fortune-hunting foreign business; and the revival of Old Shanghai vices - nightlife, drugs and prostitution. New Shanghai gives readers a sense of the tumult that has rocked urban China in the 1990s. By painting pictures of Shanghai today, it provides a better understanding of the Shanghai and China of tomorrow. The book has an excellent wide-ranging coverage from finance to vice to the return of the foreigners. The author has also conducted interviews with Shanghainese across all levels of society.

Pamela Yatsko was the Far Eastern Economic Review’s first Shanghai correspondent and bureau chief since the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949.
She lived in Shanghai with her husband from 1995 to 1998 before moving to Hong Kong and returning to the city frequently. An American from Massachusetts, she received her Bachelor’s Degree from Smith College in 1984 and her Master’s Degree specializing in China Studies and International Economics from the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1988.
Before joining the Review in 1994, she was the Managing Editor of Hong Kong-based Business China, an Economist Group publication, worked as a freelance journalist in India, and wrote case studies focusing on global strategic alliances for Harvard Business School. She studied Mandarin in the 1980s in Taiwan and at the Hopkins Center in Nanjing, China. She and her husband currently live in Mill Valley, California.