The Shanghai Badlands
The Shanghai Badlands
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Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authorities who occupied most of Shanghai, and a spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the very noses of authorities. The release of secret Chinese police files by the C.I.A. allow the inner workings of these terrorist groups, and their links to the Green Gang just before Pearl Harbor was bombed and World War II erupted, to be exposed for the first time.
- For the first time in any language, this book exposes the inner workings of Chiang Kai-shek's assassination squads during the War of Resistance
- Thanks to secret police files long held by the CIA, it takes the lid off of Shanghai's underworld
- It demonstrates how closely intertwined the Japanese military authorities and Chinese organized crime were in illegal rackets
Reviews & endorsements
"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
Product details
- Published: July 1996
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780521497442
- Length: 244 pages
- Dimensions: 236 × 160 × 23 mm
- Weight: 0.495kg
- Contains: 2 b/w illus.
- Availability: Available
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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