...Joshua A. Fogel Abstract At noon on december 3, 1937, a Japanese military parade—perhaps in ironic imitation of other processions by foreigners in Shanghai—began marching down Nanjing Road through the foreign concessions in Shanghai and along the Bund. In the lead was a military police (kenpeitai...

... the human and divine realms. GRIET VANKEERBERGHEN California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai. By MARCIA REYNDERS R I S T A I N O . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii, 369 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Marcia Reynders Ristaino's Port of Last...

...Marc Blecher BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 835 phenomenon especially absent a more complicated view of the role of civil society in our own democratic traditions. ELIZABETH J. PERRY Harvard University Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. By ELIZABETH J. PERRY and Li X U N . Boulder, Colo...

...Susan Mann Jones Shanghai Old-Style Banks (Ch'ien-Chuang), 1800–1935 . By Andrea Lee McElderry . Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan , 1976 . 230 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary. $3.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK...

... as a labor of love and his last work, the reader can almost feel Fairbank closing the circle by once again entering into a dialogue with his old mentor. STEPHEN R. M A C K I N N O N Arizona State University Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War IIJewish Ghetto. By ERNEST G. H E P P N E R . Lincoln: Neb...

... of Canterbury, New Zealand The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937 1941. By FREDERIC W A K E M A N , J R . Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xi, 227 pp. $49-95. In The Shanghai Badlands, Frederic Wakeman, Jr. traces the "triangular relationship" played...

...Ming-Bao Yu Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai . By Gail Hershatter . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 . xi, 694 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 496 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Hanchao Lu Abstract As china's leading “treaty port” city, Shanghai has long been stereotyped as the prime bridgehead for foreign encroachment on China and as the most westernized city of the country (Tang and Shen 1989: introduction). Recent scholarship in the West still refers to Shanghai...

...Shu-Mei Shih Abstract In 1924 a half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese man travelled from Japan to Shanghai to study French at the Jesuit Université L'Aurore. He was young, flamboyant, and rich, and eventually used his own personal funds to found two bookstores and three journals in Shanghai. Despite his...

...Frederick Lau “Silk and Bamboo” Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition . By J. Lawrence Witzleben . Kent, Oh. and London : The Kent State University Press , 1995 . xxi, 197 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 174...

...Yoshihiro Ishikawa Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927–1937 . By Patricia Stranahan . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. , 1998 . xii, 289 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Susan L. Glosser Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century . By Hanchao Lu . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1999 . xvii, 456 pp. $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1005 concerns...

...Mark Wilkinson Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners In Shanghai and the Chinese Revolution of the 1920's . By Nicholas R. Clifford . Hanover, N. H., and London : Middlebury College Press ; published by University of New England Press, 1991 . xvi , 359 pp. $45.00. Copyright ©...

... obtain temporary positions in the city, and they keep strong ties with the rural villages from which they came. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 1 The most exhaustive treatment of Shanghai's early proletariat is Chesneaux Jean , The Chinese Labor Movement...

... and Nathan 1985; Chen 1988). As early as 1892, Shanghai author Han Bangqing praised the installment form for heightening suspense and forcing the reader to imagine what might happen next; by 1910 “addiction” to installment fiction could be understood as an aesthetic experience, and the popularity...

...David Strand Policing Shanghai, 1927–1937 . By Frederic Wakeman Jr . Berkeley .: University of California Press , 1995 . xvii, 507 pp. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 1140 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES modeling, which takes three main...

...Jin Liu Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China . By Fang Xu . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2021 . xiv, 261 pp. ISBN: 9781793635327 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Linguists and media scholars have long noticed the declining use of Shanghai Wu...

...Joan Judge Liangyou: Kaleidescopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926–1945 . Edited by Paul G. Pickowicz , Kuiyi Shen , and Yingjin Zhang . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xi, 287 pp. $127.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...Ming K. Chan Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor . By Elizabeth J. Perry . Standford : Standford University Press , 1993 . ix, 327 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 534 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on the supremacy of a true...

...Kristin Stapleton Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900–1945 . Edited by Sherman Cochran . Ithaca : Cornell University East Asia Program . 268 pp. $23.80 (cloth); $14.45 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...