Street of Eternal Happiness Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai 1st Edition by Rob Schmitz ISBN ‎ 978-0553418101 ‎ 0553418106

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 0553418106

ISBN 13: 978-0553418101

Author: Rob Schmitz 
An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China.
 
Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the city’s sleek skyline a brighter future, and a chance to rewrite their destinies. There’s Zhao, whose path from factory floor to shopkeeper is sidetracked by her desperate measures to ensure a better future for her sons. Down the street lives Auntie Fu, a fervent capitalist forever trying to improve herself with religion and get-rich-quick schemes while keeping her skeptical husband at bay. Up a flight of stairs, musician and café owner CK sets up shop to attract young dreamers like himself, but learns he’s searching for something more. As Schmitz becomes more involved in their lives, he makes surprising discoveries which untangle the complexities of modern China: A mysterious box of letters that serve as a portal to a family’s—and country’s—dark past, and an abandoned neighborhood where fates have been violently altered by unchecked power and greed.
 
A tale of 21st-century China, Street of Eternal Happiness profiles China’s distinct generations through multifaceted characters who illuminate an enlightening, humorous, and at times heartrending journey along the winding road to the Chinese Dream. Each story adds another layer of humanity and texture to modern China, a tapestry also woven with Schmitz’s insight as a foreign correspondent. The result is an intimate and surprising portrait that dispenses with the tired stereotypes of a country we think we know, immersing us instead in the vivid stories of the people who make up one of the world’s most captivating cities.

Table of contents: 

1. 长乐路810号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 810 – CK and the System

2. 麦琪里 / Maggie Lane – Better City, Better Life

3. 长乐路109号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 109 – Hot and Noisy

4. 长乐路169号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 169 – Re-Education

5. 长乐路682弄70号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, Lane 582, 70 – Box of Letters

6. 长乐路169号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 169 – Auntie Fu’s Get-Rich-Quick Plan

7. 长乐路109号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 109 – Bride Price

8. 长乐路810号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 810 – Cultured Youth

9. 麦琪里 / Maggie Lane – Dreams, Seized

10. 长乐路682弄70号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, Lane 682, 70 – Escape

11. 长乐路169号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 169 – Zero Risk

12. 长乐路109号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 109 – Country Wedding

13. 长乐路810号 / Street of Eternal Happiness, 810 – CK’s Pilgrimage

14. 家 – Home

15. 中国梦们 – Chinese Dreams

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