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Title: Policing Shanghai 1927-1937 by Frederick, Jr Wakeman, Frederic E., Jr. Wakeman ISBN: 0-520-20761-0 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Golden Age of Crime
Comment: Shanghai in the 1920's and 30's must have been the single most difficult city in the world to govern. Shanghai's reputation as a center of vice and corruption was legendary in its own day. At the beginning of the Twenty First Century, the Shangai of this period still holds its own romantic appeal.
Frederic Wakeman's book is a study of the Nationalist Government's attempt to bring order and discipline to a city through a program of national renewal. Their goal was to one day recapture the city's full sovereignty by showing the West that the Government could effectively govern Shanghai. This book is the story of how this worthy goal was subverted to the political and monetary needs of the Nationalist Government.
Although written for an academic audience, Wakeman's story of the Green Gang, secret Comminturn Agents, turncoat Communist Assasins and corrupt police officials has an appeal that goes far beyond the merely academic. I loved this book because I enjoyed reading about the intricate details of some of the greatest crimes and criminals of this truly golden age of crime.
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Title: Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 (Interpretations of Asia) by Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Lwo Ou-Fan Lee, Ou-Fan Leo Lee ISBN: 0674805518 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.50 |
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Title: Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 by Yingjin Zhang ISBN: 0804735727 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 by Stella Dong ISBN: 0060934816 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Secret War in Shanghai : An Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Treason in World War II by Bernard Wasserstein ISBN: 0395985374 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 13 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century by Hanchao Lu, Han-Ch'ao Lu ISBN: 0520215648 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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