Industry in Shanghai between East and West. Introduction // Industria a Shanghai tra Oriente e Occidente. Introduzione
In 1937, the coming of war saw the swift eclipse of Shanghai, one of the capitals of international modernism. The rules and rituals of a complex and cosmopolitan society, contemporaneously characterised by a profound social disparity and by opportunities for social mobility unthinkable in the rest of China, dissolved on the cusp of the Second World War.