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|||FREE||| Monkey House Blues: a Shanghai Prison MONKEY HOUSE BLUES: A SHANGHAI PRISON MEMOIR FREE DOWNLOAD Dominic Stevenson | 240 pages | 01 May 2010 | Mainstream Publishing | 9781845965662 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Download In Pdf Tyrrell rated it really liked it Jul 24, Thirteen Chinese hanjian prisoners being executed inside the prison's walls. Read more. Lists with This Book. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. InMonkey House Blues: A Shanghai Prison Memoir Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. Ranmalee Gamage rated it it was amazing Jul 28, Sarah rated it it was amazing Dec 30, Prisons in China. This is the memoir of a young man who ended up in a Shanghai jail in China for drug smuggling. OneWay Ticket. Going to Court. I am promise you will like the My Private China. Trivia About Monkey House Blue Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 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In Chiang Kai-shek 's Kuomintang Monkey House Blues: A Shanghai Prison Memoir negotiated for all male prisoners, Western or Chinese, to be sent to Ward Road Gaol and for it to be run as close to Chinese guidelines as possible. Readers also enjoyed. After the First Battle of Shanghai ended with the de facto control of Hongkou, Ward Road Gaol found itself located in the middle of the Japanese-controlled sector of the International Settlement. From Afghan gun shops to Tibetan monasteries, Thai brothels and the stirrings of the rave culture in Goa. Jul 03, Mouna rated it really liked it. April 08, Bernhard rated it really liked it Jan 17, However, it is for a mature reader as there is a lot of reference to drug taking, smuggling and descriptions of drug preparation and its effects throughout the book. 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