<p>In the mid-1800s, Zhang Songxian, the son of a shopkeeper from Nanxun, China, built a fortune in the silk and salt trades. Almost overnight, the Zhangs became one of China's richest and most influential families. Over the ensuing decades, a number of indelible figures in the family emerged, including Zhang Jingjiang, the crippled anarchist who became Chiang Kai-shek's mentor and China's "uncrowned emperor;" his beautiful, Western-raised daughters, whose romantic escapades enlivened Shanghai's gossip columns; and Zhang Shiming, the cultured bibliophile whose life of leisure was abruptly cut short by Shanghai's notorious gangsters in the 1920s. From a garbage dump purchased by "Great-Grandmother Gui" that became the "Great World," Shanghai's infamous pleasure palace; to the coded telegrams that would lead the family to become the primary financiers of the 1911 Chinese Revolution; to a buried treasure seized during the Cultural Revolution, the history of the Zhang family reflects the tulmultuous changes China has undergone over the past one and a half centuries.</p>

The Zhangs from Nanxun: A One Hundred and Fifty Year Chronicle of a Chinese Family

Biographies & Memoirs

Chang, Laurence J.

Chang, Nelson

Song, Luxia

Community & Culture

CF Press

"A Rare Appreciation of the Qipaos Worn by the Grande Dames of Shanghai（Hardcover）" collects sixty pieces of Qipaos worn by the grande dames of shanghai which reflects their understanding and pursuit of dress aesthetics in past half century. These colorful， elegant, luxurious Qipaos with jewels shining in different fabrics and styles reveal changes and evolution in textiles, design, tailoring, sewing, embroidery works and other technical direction; they also carry the aesthetics, etiquette , fashion, social contact, sino-foreign cultural exchange and other aspects of social information.

A Rare Appreciation of the Qipaos Worn by the Grande Dames of Shanghai (English and Chinese Edition)

Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Publishing House Co.,Ltd

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