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Beneath the Rose City: The Secret History of Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels. Treasure Beneath the City, #9
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- ISBN8235060821
- EAN9798235060821
- Date de parution04/07/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
For over a century, the legend of Portland's Shanghai Tunnels has captivated the public imagination: a weary sailor steps into a dimly lit waterfront saloon, accepts a drink, and suddenly plunges through a hidden trapdoor into the dark hold of a waiting ship. It is a thrilling, cinematic tale. It is also a complete fabrication. In Beneath the Rose City, the true, far more sinister history of Portland's subterranean labyrinth is finally unearthed.
Stripping away the Hollywood veneer of trapdoors and opium dens, this gripping work of narrative non-fiction reveals that the real machinery of "shanghaiing" was not built on hidden hinges, but on ledgers, liquor licenses, and the weaponization of maritime debt. Born in the 1850s as a desperate, pragmatic solution to Portland's legendary, impassable mud, the tunnels quickly became the hidden circulatory system of a booming frontier city.
But as the maritime trade exploded, so did a shadow economy. Discover how ruthless "crimps" and corrupt officials trapped vulnerable men not with secret chutes, but with the inescapable, legalistic nightmare of the "advance note"-a bureaucratic evil that buried sailors in debt and bound them to the brutal forecastles of clipper ships. Yet, the most profound secret of the underground is not a tale of kidnapping, but of survival.
Beneath the Rose City illuminates the vital, overlooked role the tunnels played for Portland's Chinese immigrant community. Fleeing the violent racism of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the constant threat of surface-level mob attacks, the Chinese ingeniously adapted the subterranean network into a shadow city-a hidden supply chain and a sanctuary in the dark. From the roaring renaissance of 1920s Prohibition bootleggers to the mid-century entombment under concrete, and finally to the modern battle between commercialized ghost tours and rigorous historical preservation, this book is a profound excavation of the Pacific Northwest's soul.
Forget the ghost stories. The truth beneath the pavement is far more compelling.
Stripping away the Hollywood veneer of trapdoors and opium dens, this gripping work of narrative non-fiction reveals that the real machinery of "shanghaiing" was not built on hidden hinges, but on ledgers, liquor licenses, and the weaponization of maritime debt. Born in the 1850s as a desperate, pragmatic solution to Portland's legendary, impassable mud, the tunnels quickly became the hidden circulatory system of a booming frontier city.
But as the maritime trade exploded, so did a shadow economy. Discover how ruthless "crimps" and corrupt officials trapped vulnerable men not with secret chutes, but with the inescapable, legalistic nightmare of the "advance note"-a bureaucratic evil that buried sailors in debt and bound them to the brutal forecastles of clipper ships. Yet, the most profound secret of the underground is not a tale of kidnapping, but of survival.
Beneath the Rose City illuminates the vital, overlooked role the tunnels played for Portland's Chinese immigrant community. Fleeing the violent racism of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the constant threat of surface-level mob attacks, the Chinese ingeniously adapted the subterranean network into a shadow city-a hidden supply chain and a sanctuary in the dark. From the roaring renaissance of 1920s Prohibition bootleggers to the mid-century entombment under concrete, and finally to the modern battle between commercialized ghost tours and rigorous historical preservation, this book is a profound excavation of the Pacific Northwest's soul.
Forget the ghost stories. The truth beneath the pavement is far more compelling.
