Street of Eternal Happiness : big city dreams along a Shanghai road

Summary: "A narrative account profiling the ordinary men and women who live, work, and dream on the author's street in Shanghai, inspired by his enormously popular Marketplace series of the same name"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780553418088
ISBN: 0553418084
Physical Description: print
vii, 326 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-322) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 810 : CK and the system -- Maggie Lane : better city, better life -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 109 : hot and noisy -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 169 : re-education -- Street of Eternal Happiness, Lane 682, no. 70 : box of letters -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 169 : Auntie Fu's get-rich-quick plan -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 109 : bride price -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 810 : cultured youth -- Maggie Lane : dreams, seized -- Street of Eternal Happiness, Lane 682, No. 70 : escape -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 169 : zero risk -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 109 : country wedding -- Street of Eternal Happiness, No. 810 : CK's pilgrimage -- Home -- Chinese dreams.