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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Paperback, New ed)
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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Paperback, New ed)
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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.
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