TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,James Hugh
TI  - Champions day: the end of Old Shanghai 
SN  - 9780393635942 (hardback)
U1  - 951.132 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Shanghai Race Club (Shanghai, China)
KW  - Champions' Stakes (Horse racing tournament : Shanghai, China)
KW  - (1941 Nov. 12)
KW  - Horse racing
KW  - China
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - History
KW  - Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Shanghai (China)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Shanghai (China : International Settlement)
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "A triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war. November 12, 1941: war and revolution are in the air. At the Shanghai Race Club, the city's elite prepare to face off their best horses and most nimble jockeys in the annual Champions Day races. Across town and amid tight security, others celebrated the birth of Sun Yat-Sen in a new city centre meant to challenge European imperialism. Thousands more Shanghai residents from all walks of life attended the funeral of China's wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman. But the biggest crowd of all gathered at the track; no one knew it, but Champions Day heralded the end of a European Shanghai. Through this colourful snapshot of the day's events, the rich and complex history that led to them, and a cast of characters as diverse as the city itself, James Carter provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of a time and a place that still speaks to relations between China and the West today"--
ER  -