About the book: 2019 / Colorful essays by the writer, journalist and compiler of a number of almanacs dedicated to China E. E. Magaram paint pictures of Shanghai in the early 1920s - huge and full contrasts of an international city, not without reason nicknamed “yellow Babylon” and “Paris of the Far East”. A number of essays are devoted to the depiction of Shanghai brothels and “fun quarters”. The book also includes the story “Dangerous Fun,” which the author calls a “film drama.”».