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So this is Shanghai

The Field and the Cave, Part III

A center of European domination, Shanghai is a cosmopolitan but segregated city and a hub of manufacturing and commerce.  The working class suffers urban famine as the economy greatly favors the rich.  Sun Yat-sen is dead and Chiang Kai-shek is on his way to seizing control of Beijing.

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Shanghai Strike 1930