Policing Shanghai 1927-1937

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Policing Shanghai 1927-1937

Frederic Wakeman, Jr

University of California Press, c1995

  • : [hbk.]
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 423-461

Includes index

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: [hbk.] ISBN 9780520084889

内容説明

Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. This study of the most colourful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban centre during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences that surfaced among Shanghai's Chinese, the influence of imperialism and Western-trained officials. Parts of this book read like a spy novel, with secret police, torture, assassination; and power struggles among the French, International Settlement, and Japanese consular police within Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to prove that the Chinese could rule Shanghai and the country by themselves, rather than be exploited and dominated by foreign powers. His efforts to reclaim the crime-ridden city failed, partly because of the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, but also because the Nationalist police force was itself corrupted by the city. Wakeman's exhaustively researched study should be a major contribution to the study of the Nationalist regime and to modern Chinese urban history. It also shows that 20th-century China has not been characterized by discontinuity, because autocratic government - whether Nationalist or Communist - has prevailed.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520207615

内容説明

Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences that surfaced among Shanghai's Chinese, the influence of imperialism and Western-trained officials. Parts of this book read like a spy novel, with secret police, torture, assassination; and power struggles among the French, International Settlement, and Japanese consular police within Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to prove that the Chinese could rule Shanghai and the country by themselves, rather than be exploited and dominated by foreign powers. His efforts to reclaim the crime-ridden city failed, partly because of the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, but also because the Nationalist police force was itself corrupted by the city. Wakeman's exhaustively researched study is a major contribution to the study of the Nationalist regime and to modern Chinese urban history. It also shows that twentieth-century China has not been characterized by discontinuity, because autocratic government - whether Nationalist or Communist - has prevailed.

目次

Author's Note Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: THE CONTEXT 1 Law and Order 2 From Constabulary to Police 3 Foul Elements PART TWO: NEW POLICING CONCEPTUALIZATIONS 4 Policing the New Civic Order 5 Asserting Sovereignty through Policing 6 Crime and Social Control PART THREE: ORGANIZED "CRIME" 7 Vice 8 Narcotics 9 Reds PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL CHOICES FOR POLICING 10 Making Choices 11 The Impact of the Japanese on Municipal Policing 12 A Second Chance: The Administration of Mayor Wu Tiecheng PART FIVE: THE LIMITATIONS OF THE NEW CIVIC ORDER 13 The New Life and National Salvation Movements 14 Nationalizing the Police and Making Criminality Respectable 15 Criminalizing the Government Conclusion: Resolutions Tables Appendixes Reference Matter Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Glossary-Index Photographs Author's Note

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