Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road, (Paperback)

from jordan.lusink

A unique and insightful inside look at a single street in China, this book is beautifully written and expresses the humanity of people living in devastating situations. Although I did find that sometimes the timelines of individual stories within this book were a bit scattered, it was quite inter...

from yukon92

I received an ARC through the Early Reviewers give-away. The fact that it was an ARC was the only reason I didn't give the book 5 stars. This copy was missing some maps, etc. that would have helped in understanding the layout of the "street" that the book played in. It was quite interesting to re...

from streamsong

In 2010, author Rob Schmitz moved with his family to Shanghai to live on an optimistically named street roughly translated The Street of Eternal Happiness. Schmitz is a journalist; he had lived in China previously, spoke fluently and loved the people. These are his stories of the inhabitants of t...

from bostonian71

Fascinating and sobering account of modern China as seen through the eyes of some of its residents. Schmitz is an intelligent, sympathetic observer who does his best to let his neighbors speak for themselves even as he explicates the illogic, doublespeak and corruption that are part of dealing wi...

from Carolee888

Having been on a tour in China back in 1992 and remember how different Shanghai was from the other cities that I saw, I was excited to win the chance to read and review Street of Eternal Happiness by Rob Schmitz. The author interviewed people who lived on the same street that he did. The literal ...