In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation

by Edited by Christian Henriot , Wen-hsin Yeh

• ISBN13: 9780521822213
• ISBN10: 0521822211
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The authors of this volume examine the Chinese War of Resistance against the Japanese in the Shanghai area.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: 1. Shanghai industries under Japanese occupation: bomb, boom and bust (1937-1945) Christian Henriot

2. Chinese capitalists in wartime Shanghai, 1937-1945: a case study of the Rong family enterprises Park Coble

3. Marketing medicine across enemy lines: Chinese 'fixers' and Shanghai's wartime centrality Sherman Cochran

4. Crossing enemy lines: wartime Shanghai and the Central China base area Allison Rottmann

5. Shanghai smuggling Frederic Wakeman

Part II: 6. The Great Way Government of Shanghai Timothy Brook

7. Resistance and cooperation: Du Yuesheng and the politics of the Shanghai United Committee, 1940-1945 Brian Martin

8. Wang Jingwei's Shanghai questionable unionists: scabs, traitors or avengers? Alain Roux

9. Settlers and diplomats: the end of British hegemony in the international settlement, 1937-1945 Robert Bickers

10. The bumpy end of the French concession in Shanghai (1943-1946) Christine Cornet

Part III: 11. Back to business as usual: the resurgence of commercial radio in Gudao Shanghai Carl Benson

12. 'women's culture of resistance' An ordinary response to extraordinary circumstances Susan Glosser

13. Shaping public knowledge: women's print culture in wartime occupied Shanghai (1941-1945) Nicole Huang

14. Women and wartime Shanghai: the strange case of Tian Han's 'Liren xing' Paul Pickowicz.