Old Shanghai : gangsters in paradise / Pan Ling



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1993

Old Shanghai : gangsters in paradise / Pan Ling

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This is the author's compelling story of the sub-world of secret societies, intelligence networks and terrorist rings, in old Shanghai in the midst of the gathering maelstrom of war and revolution.

Subjects

Shanghai (China)--History

Categories

History

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Title
Old Shanghai : gangsters in paradise / Pan Ling
Creators
  • Pan, Lynn
Subject
  • Shanghai (China)--History
Publisher
  • Heinemann Asia, 1993
  • National Library Board Singapore, 1993
Digital Description
application/pdf, ill.
Table of Contents
  • Preface -- Part one. 1. Auspicious Tuesday, 9 June 1931 -- 2. Waterfront urchin, 1887-1908 -- 3. Secret societies and opium, 1908-1915 -- 4. Gangland and warlords, 1915-1927 -- 5. Shanghai takeover, 1927-1931 -- 6. The opportunist as patriot, 1931-1937 -- Part two. 7. Bloody Saturday, 14 August 1937 -- 8. The Rising Sun over Shanghai, 1937-1938 -- 9. Appeasement and terror, 1938-1939 -- 10. The Nanjing regime, 1939-1940 -- 11. Traitors and guerillas, 1940-1944 -- 12. Betrayals and homecomings, 1944-1946 -- 13. Just and unjust deserts, 1946-1948 -- 14. Red Star over Shanghai, 1948-1952 -- Name index.
Copyright
  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.