Old Shanghai's architecture is world famous, particularly for the many Art Deco buildings designed and erected during its golden age in the 1920s and 1930s, before the Japanese invaded and the world changed. Many of the Art Deco gems in Shanghai were designed by the French architect Paul Veysseyre, the focus of this book. Co-authors Spencer Dodington and Charles Lagrange chronicle the history of Shanghai's French Concession and the work of architect Paul Veysseyre. Having been granted access to the private Veysseyre family archives outside Paris, plus extensive on-the-ground research in Shanghai, the two writers have created the definitive book on one of the city's greatest architects.