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A marvel of place-based reporting. Rob Schmitz begins on a street in Shanghai, winning the trust of residents, until this single road leads him deep into the provinces and the distant past, illuminating the complexities, contradictions, and funny wonder of today's China ... Like so much of the best documentary work on China, this book is really about family - the most eternal force on any street in the country Peter Hessler, author of River Town At last, an intimate look at daily life in contemporary, convivial Shanghai. Longtime resident Rob Schmitz delves deep into his neighborhood to uncover the twists and turns of recent history that most correspondents, tourists and locals pass by without noticing, even as it is reduced to rubble around them. All great cities have a great book that captures their rise or fall; Street of Eternal Happiness is Shanghai's Michael Meyer, author of In Manchuria In Street of Eternal Happiness, Rob Schmitz peels back the layers of a single Shanghai street to discover ambition, reinvention, faith, corruption, murder, trauma, and heartbreak. Schmitz has taken the time to get to know the people he writes about, to win their trust, to see them struggling to improve their lives, and to follow them to interesting and surprising places, from a remote Buddhist temple to a recruitment meeting for pyramid schemes to a rural matchmaking session gone wrong. In this intimate and revealing book, a two-mile stretch of road embodies the dreams and dramas of modern China Leslie T. Change, author of Factory Girls

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Rob Schmitz is the China Correspondent for Marketplace. He has reported on a range of topics illustrating China's role in the global economy including trade, politics, the environment, education, and labour. He has spent time living and working in China, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, then as a freelance print and video journalist. Schmitz holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and speaks fluent Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. He lives in Shanghai with his wife and two sons.

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