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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 November 2009
      13 July 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511572852
      9780521497442
      9780521528719
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572852
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.495kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.396kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Twentieth Century Regional History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Twentieth Century Regional History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions
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    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.

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    "This study takes the reader on a tour of political terrorism and urban crime on the borderlands of the various settlements in Shanghai from the beginning of World War II China to 1941." Arif Dirlik, The Historian

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