Stella Dong is the author of many historical books on China, most notably ''

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City'' (Harpers), ''Peking: Heart of the Celestial Empire'' (Formasia) and ''Sun Yat-sen: Enigmatic Revolutionary'' (Formasia). Born in

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, she worked for several magazines before her first book. She is known for her perceptive articles on Chinese-American writers, and has a regular column on American-Asian cultural affairs in Hong Kong's ''South China Morning Post''. She has also written for the ''

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Shanghai The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City
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