I went on an Amazon pre-shopping spree today, and this is what ended up in my cart:

• A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

  Brian D. McLaren; Hardcover

• Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (Transitions—Asia and Asian America)

  Elizabeth J. Perry; Paperback

• The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937

  Brian G. Martin; Hardcover

• Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980

  Emily Honig; Hardcover

• Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

  Hanchao Lu; Hardcover

• Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution (Series in Contemporary Photography, 2)

  Jack Birns; Hardcover

• New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City

  Pamela Yatsko; Paperback

• Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943

  Yingjin Zhang; Paperback

• Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 (Interpretations of Asia)

  Leo Ou-fan Lee; Paperback

• Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church

  Doug Pagitt; Paperback

• Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives

  Leonard Sweet; Paperback

The rub?

Subtotal: $339.02

Now, to pare this down...