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... Shanghainese imagination while success encouraged speculation in new ventures . In this atmosphere Zhang met his future father - in - law , He Yongcan . A photograph of Zhang taken at the time reveals a solid man with a pudgy face and ...
... Shanghainese imagination while success encouraged speculation in new ventures . In this atmosphere Zhang met his future father - in - law , He Yongcan . A photograph of Zhang taken at the time reveals a solid man with a pudgy face and ...
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... Shanghainese stood in corners making provisional plans for their second escape from the communists in fifty years . My middle - aged companion told me that he had never forgotten the first Shanghai girls he met in Hong Kong in 1949 ...
... Shanghainese stood in corners making provisional plans for their second escape from the communists in fifty years . My middle - aged companion told me that he had never forgotten the first Shanghai girls he met in Hong Kong in 1949 ...
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... Shanghainese proved powerless to stop it . They had in fact lost the fight twelve years before . The turmoil experienced by the Shanghainese during the 1930s was observed with passionate interest by a group of young Americans from the ...
... Shanghainese proved powerless to stop it . They had in fact lost the fight twelve years before . The turmoil experienced by the Shanghainese during the 1930s was observed with passionate interest by a group of young Americans from the ...
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