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An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Chinas most exhilarating metropolis, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China today.
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. Marketplaces Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the citys sleek skyline a brighter future, and a chance to rewrite their destinies. Theres 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 caf owner CK sets up shop to attract young dreamers like himself, but learns hes 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 familys and countrys 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 Chinas 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 Schmitzs 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 worlds most captivating cities.
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STREET OF ETERNAL HAPPINESS
Rob Schmitz has crafted a deeply empathetic marvel of a book. Alternately poignant and humorous, it has much to offer anyone who has been to Shanghai, thought about going there but not made it yet, or simply wants to get a better feel for the rhythms of life in twenty-first-century China.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China and author of China in the 21st Century
For nearly two centuries Shanghai has been a city that offered both Chinese and foreigners the possibility of success, wealth, and status. Rob Schmitz paints a vivid canvas of the city from the perspective of one big city street that neatly encapsulates the myriad aspirations of one country and its people. The Street of Eternal Happiness: a thoroughfare of aspirations and dreams, hard-earned successes and sadly thwarted hopes, where Schmitz encounters the ghosts of Chinas troubled past, the hardworking yet wistful dreamers of today, and those whose sights and visions are firmly fixed on Chinas, and their own, future.
Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking and Fat China
Rob Schmitzs stories of friends and neighbors on a single Shanghai street capture a kaleidoscope of Chinese history, from famine and Cultural Revolution to one-child policy. Above all, these tales illustrate the perils and hopes of living the Chinese Dream, written with penetrating insight and charming fluidity. A delight.
Mei Fong, Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting and author of One Child
Authentic, boisterous, convincing, dynamic, energizing, the street stretching on, each window a nonfictional tale more fantastic than the fictional in the dramatic, almost unbelievable transformation of the Chinese society in its contemporary history, narrating with an Ezra Poundlike multiple cultural perspectives and linguistic sensibilities, and leading, eventually, to overwhelming questions. The reading of Street of Eternal Happiness cannot but compel a Shanghai-born Shanghainese like me into another trip back to the city in this global age.
Qiu Xiaolong, author of Death of a Red Heroine and Shanghai Redemption
Copyright 2016 by Rob Schmitz
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Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. crownpublishing.com
CROWN is a registered trademark and the Crown colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schmitz, Rob.
Title: Street of Eternal Happiness: big city dreams along a Shanghai road / Rob Schmitz.
Description: First edition. | New York: Crown, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041162 | ISBN 9780553418088 (hardback) | ISBN 9780553418095 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China)Biography. | Shanghai (China)Social life and customs. | Shanghai (China)Economic conditions. | StreetsChinaShanghai. | NeighborhoodsChinaShanghai. | City and town lifeChinaShanghai. |Schmitz, RobHomes and hauntsChinaShanghai. | AmericansChinaShanghaiBiography. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. | HISTORY / Asia / China. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
Classification: LCC DS796.S253 A26 2016 | DDC 951/.132dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041162
ISBN9780553418088
eBook ISBN9780553418095
Map and illustrations by Sophie Kittredge
Cover design by Elena Giavaldi
Cover photograph by Sue Anne Tay
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