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Shanghai, The Roaring 20’s

Shanghai in the 20s and the 30s: money rules in this city open to all adventures and whose reputation attracts all the bold adventurers of the world. The opium trade is under the control of the Chinese triads, who run their operations from the foreign concessions .
Du Yuesheng, the Godfather of the Green Gang rules the city.Albert Londres, one of the most famous journalist of the time, who is in Shanghai in 1924 reports to his newspaper. Unpublished Chinese archive materials, private archives, old feature films, period newspapers, police reports, diplomatic correspondence, journalism by Albert Londres and explorations of present-day Shanghai, sketch the portrait a world that continues to fascinate the West.