Carl Crow—A Tough Old China Hand:The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai
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Review
“Carl Crow’s story of rags to riches to rags again set against the turbulent history of Shanghai makes for a gripping read. As a newshound, businessman, writer and entrepreneur, Crow’s insights into China’s modernization—and Western fantasies about the China market—are as fresh and illuminating as they were at the time. This is much more than a biography but brings together the whole story of Shanghai’s rise and fall. The book is full of vivid details and amusing and sometimes sad stories which anyone interested in Shanghai’s future and its past will enjoy.” —Jasper Becker, author of The Chinese and Hungry Ghosts
“Shanghai resident Paul French has written a lively, exhaustive narrative account of the life and times of entrepreneur and Shanghai businessman Carl Crow. An absorbing story about a pioneering figure in transnational commercial capitalism during the first half of the twentieth century.” —Tani E. Barlow, Professor of History, University of Washington
Description
Among Crow’s exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao’s second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War, he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, coordinating US policies to support China against Japan.
The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years. This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period, and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there.