Carl Crow

by French, Paul

• ISBN13: 9789622098022
• ISBN10: 9622098029
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-28
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentl

Table of Contents

Names and Spelling	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: A Quarter Century in China	p. 1
From the Mid-West to the China Coast	p. 7
The China Press Man	p. 17
Living at the End of the Wires	p. 25
The Collapse of the Qing Dynasty and Opportunities Abound	p. 35
Intrigue in Tokyo and World War	p. 57
From Fruit Rancher to Spy	p. 71
Sun Yat-sen and the Biography That Never Was	p. 83
Four Hundred Million Customers and Bringing Billboards to China	p. 89
Getting Friendly with Warlords	p. 113
Rumblings in Shanghai	p. 133
The Life of a China Coast Man	p. 139
Fear in Shanghai, the Generalissimo and Three Stripes on the Arm	p. 161
Back in the Newspaper Business	p. 171
The New Republic and the Soong Dynasty	p. 177
More Skirmishes and a City in Flux	p. 185
Swallowing Like Whales, Nibbling Like Silkworms	p. 193
Final Days in the City of the Dead	p. 203
Business Over: The Escape from Shanghai	p. 211
Through the Back Door into China	p. 223
Tea with Madame Chiang and Whisky with Zhou En-lai	p. 237
War Service and Being Proved Right	p. 249
The Final Prolific Years	p. 261
Epilogue: Gone but Not Forgotten	p. 269
Notes	p. 271
Select Bibliography and Further Reading	p. 297
Appendix	p. 301
Index	p. 303
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