It takes the average reader 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou-fan Lee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the midst of China's wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this "treaty port" from the Western world. A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture...
Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou-fan Lee is 409 pages long, and a total of 105,931 words.
This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 38 minutes to read Shanghai Modern aloud.
Shanghai Modern is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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