'City of Devils' tells the story of two Americans who reigned in old Shanghai
Jul 25, 2018
3 minutes
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,” Ben Kenobi tells young Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars," referring to the seedy spaceport of Mos Eisley, and the line could be applied to virtually any polyglot port, both a long time ago in a galaxy far away and also right here on Earth. Every polyglot port city has a period in its history when it's flocked with people, flooded with business, but not yet policed by the law. And
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