Shanghai Grand Reviewed in the National Post
From the review:
With Shanghai Grand, Taras Grescoe – in a departure from the personal journalism of his books Straphanger and The Devil’s Picnic – tells the story of that time, focusing on three of its representative characters: Sir Victor, the businessman building Shanghai; Hahn, the ex-flapper journalist there for a good time; and Zau Sinmay, a Shanghai poet whose fictionalized counterpart, Mr. Pan, would become the face of modern Shanghai for Hahn’s readers in the New Yorker.