Shanghai

Authors: David Rotenberg

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PENGUIN CANADA

SHANGHAI

DAVID ROTENBERG
is the author of five mystery novels set in Shanghai with a TV series currently in development. He has directed plays on Broadway and around the world, and is the artistic director of the internationally famous Professional Actors Lab. David lives in Toronto with his wife, Susan Santiago. They have two children, Joey and Beth. Further information can be found at www.davidrotenberg.com.

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The Lake Ching Murders

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The Hamlet Murders

The Golden Mountain Murders

Shanghai
DAVID ROTENBERG
The Ivory Compact

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We have just enough religion to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love, one another.

âJ
ONATHAN
S
WIFT
, 1667â1745

Contents
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Book OneâFrom the Holy Mountain
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Part One
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Chapter One	The Ivory Compact
Chapter Two	Approaching the Yangtze
Chapter Three	The Vrassoons
Chapter Four	Maxi
Chapter Five	The Master Carver
Chapter Six	Near the Bend in the River
Chapter Seven	White Birds on Water
Chapter Eight	Shanghai
Chapter Nine	A Vrassoon at Bedlam
Chapter Ten	Hunger
Chapter Eleven	At the Grand Canal
Chapter Twelve	From the Journals of Richard Hordoon
Chapter Thirteen	Treaty Moves
Chapter Fourteen	Nanking
Chapter Fifteen	The White Birds Land
Chapter Sixteen	A Calcutta Death, a Life at the Works
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Part Two
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Chapter Seventeen	The Body Guard, His Brother, and His Nephew
Chapter Eighteen	The Selling of Shanghai
Chapter Nineteen	Trouble in the Opium Trade
Chapter Twenty	A First Foray
Chapter Twenty-One	A Second Foray
Chapter Twenty-Two	Arrival of the Patriarch
Chapter Twenty-Three	Extraterritoriality
Chapter Twenty-Four	And Change Comes
Chapter Twenty-Five	The French
Chapter Twenty-Six	Opium Dreams and Nightmares
Chapter Twenty-Seven	The Rise of the Prophet
Chapter Twenty-Eight	Meetings
Chapter Twenty-Nine	The Settlement and the Taipingers
Chapter Thirty	Neutrality and Prosperity
Chapter Thirty-One	Death and Birth in the Bamboo
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Chapter Thirty-Two	The History Teller
Chapter Thirty-Three	Into the Countryside
Chapter Thirty-Four	Journey to the West
Chapter Thirty-Five	Deal with a Devil; Deal with an Angel
Chapter Thirty-Six	Shanghai Prospers
Chapter Thirty-Seven	Final Journey
Chapter Thirty-Eight	A Prophecy
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Book TwoâA Man with a Book
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Chapter One	Silas Hordoon
Chapter Two	Arise the Assassin
Chapter Three	Shanghai, City at the Bend in the River
Chapter Four	Gangster Tu
Chapter Five	The Chosen Three
Chapter Six	Tu's Attack
Chapter Seven	And in Far-Off America
Chapter Eight	Stowaway
Chapter Nine	The Second Portal
Chapter Ten	A Game of Raft
Chapter Eleven	The Revolutionary
Chapter Twelve	The Go Player's Secret
Chapter Thirteen	Three Graves, Three Memories
Chapter Fourteen	Silas's Inheritance
Chapter Fifteen	The Progress of Charles Soon
Chapter Sixteen	Jiang's Choice
Chapter Seventeen	The Dowager Empress and the Hundred Days of Reform
Chapter Eighteen	Mai Bao, Jiang's Middle Daughter
Chapter Nineteen	Newspapers and WhoresâA Marriage Made in Heaven
Chapter Twenty	Silas and Charles
Chapter Twenty-One	Leaf Contests
Chapter Twenty-Two	Richard's Journal Jiang:
Chapter Twenty-Three	A Whore's Cemetery
Chapter Twenty-Four	Silas Finds a New Wife
Chapter Twenty-Five	A Meeting of Minds
Chapter Twenty-Six	Yin Bao Meets a Feminist
Chapter Twenty-Seven	Yin Bao Gets a Husband
Chapter Twenty-Eight	A Carver's Son
Chapter Twenty-Nine	The Assassin and His Wife
Chapter Thirty	Tu and the Tusk
Chapter Thirty-One	A Deal for the Tusk
Chapter Thirty-Two	A War Council
Chapter Thirty-Three	Loa Wei Fen's Warning
Chapter Thirty-Four	Attack on the Warrens
Chapter Thirty-Five	Victors and Vanquished Mai Bao and Her: Revolutionary
Chapter Thirty-Six	Victors and Vanquished: Charles Soong and His Writer
Chapter Thirty-Seven	Time Passes
Chapter Thirty-Eight	Silas and Automobiles
Chapter Thirty-Nine	The Tusk Degrades
Chapter Forty	Typhoon
Chapter Forty-One	ChangeâDeath of a Dowager
Chapter Forty-Two	ChangeâDeath of a Courtesan
Chapter Forty-Three	A Gift from Silas
Chapter Forty-Four	A Diversion
Chapter Forty-Five	A Long, Curved Object
Chapter Forty-Six	The Racing Cars Arrive
Chapter Forty-Seven	The Blessed Virgin
Chapter Forty-Eight	A Laughing Buddha
Chapter Forty-Nine	Rolling a Racing Car
Chapter Fifty	Race Day
Chapter Fifty-One	Getting the Tusk
Chapter Fifty-Two	The Race
Chapter Fifty-Three	Silas Onboard
Chapter Fifty-Four	Richards Journal: The Bible
Chapter Fifty-Five	An Ancestral Home for a Sacred Relic
Chapter Fifty-Six	Return of the Pilgrim
Chapter Fifty-Seven	InterludeâAnd Time Passes
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Book ThreeâThe End of the Garden
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Chapter One	The Final Dream of Silas Hordoon
Chapter Two	The Funeral of a White Chinaman
Chapter Three	Japanese Plans
Chapter Four	On and Beneath the Marco Polo Bridge
Chapter Five	Beijing
Chapter Six	Jiang Passes the Mantle
Chapter Seven	The Confucian
Chapter Eight	Missives
Chapter Nine	The Ecstasy of Charles Soong's Daughters
Chapter Ten	Attack on Shanghai
Chapter Eleven	The Naked Man
Chapter Twelve	The History Teller
Chapter Thirteen	The Chosen Three Decide
Chapter Fourteen	Getting to Nanking
Chapter Fifteen	The Fall of Nanking and the Rise of the Dragon
Chapter Sixteen	Shanghai Under Occupation
Chapter Seventeen	World War
Chapter Eighteen	A Flash of Light
Chapter Nineteen	The History Teller Rewrites
Chapter Twenty	Surrender and After
Chapter Twenty-One	Confucian Power
Chapter Twenty-Two	Mao
Chapter Twenty-Three	Journey to What Was Ours
Chapter Twenty-Four	A Journey to the Future
Epilogue	The Age of Dry Water
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Historical Note
Acknowledgments

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