By Paul French

Introduction – Sojourners of an Interesting Sort

1) The Hunt for Eugene O’Neill: How America’s Most Famous Playwright Went to Shanghai, Fooled Everyone and had a High Old Time of It (1928)

- Did He or Didn’t He? – Andre Malraux (1931)

2) Nearly Snubbed by Shanghai – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (1929)

- The Collaborators – Marion, Don and Bert dream of a Nazi Shanghai (1941)

3) Louis L’Amour’s Shanghai Gestures (1933)

- A Warm Welcome for Charlie Chan - Warner Oland (1936)

4) Two Poets Meet in Frenchtown - Langston Hughes and Irene West (1934)

- From Warsaw to Shanghai to Hollywood – Lyda Roberti (1930s)

5) The Beast Comes to Shanghai – Aleister Crowley (1906)

- A Dense, Rank, Richly Clotted Life – Aldous Huxley (1926)

6) The Zeitgeist Bookstore and Recruiting the Fifth Man – the Red Sojourners Agnes Smedley, Roger Hollis and Irene Weitemeyer (1929)

- Nina Barsamova – The White Russian Movie Queen of Shanghai (1933)

7) Weimar Germany on the Huangpu – Lily Flohr Will be Flattered to See You (1941)

- Florence Broadhurst Teaches Shanghai to Sing (1926)

8) Shanghai’s Most Charming Gangster – Ely “The Swiss” Widler’s Wild China Ride (1940)

- A Showgirl, Bloody Saturday and the Shrapnel Swing - Terese Rudolph (1937)

10) CC Julian’s Last Refuge – How America’s Biggest Ever Swindler Ended Up in Shanghai (1934)

Conclusion - Ye Shanghai