The Shanghai badlands : wartime terrorism and urban crime, 1937-1941
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The Shanghai badlands : wartime terrorism and urban crime, 1937-1941
（Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature and institutions）
Cambridge University Press, 2002, c1996
- : pbk
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"First published 1996. First paperback edition 2002"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-208) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but warfare was not restricted to that zone. A spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the noses of the authorities. Thanks to the release of secret Chinese police files by the CIA, the inner workings of these terrorist groups and their links to the notorious Green Gang can now be exposed for the first time. In so doing, this book also explores the social history of Shanghai's underworld, the worsening relations between the US and Japan before World War II, and the rivalry between leaders Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei during China's War of Resistance.
Table of Contents
- Prologue: consequences
- 1. Island Shanghai
- 2. Blue Shirts
- 3. National salvation
- 4. Retaliation - pro-Japanese terrorists
- 5. Provocation - the Chen Lu assassination
- 6. Capitulation - the Xi Shitai assassination
- 7. The puppet police and 76 Jessfield Road
- 8. Terrorism and crime
- 9. Rackets
- 10. Terrorist wars
- 11. Dim-out
- Epilogue: outcomes
- Bibliography.
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