Shanghai Sojourners

by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. (Editor)

China Research Monograph 40, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies | Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors; Map; Introduction -Frederic Wakeman, Jr., and Wen-Hsin Yeh; 1. The Shanghai Bankers' Association, 1915-1927: Modernization and the Institutionalization of Local Solidarities -Marie-Claire Bergère; 2. Three Roads into Shanghai's Market: Japanese, Western, and Chinese Companies in the Match Trade, 1895-1937 -Sherman Cochran; 3. New Culture, Old Habits: Native-Place Organization and the May Fourth Movement -Bryna Goodman; 4. The Evolution of the Shanghai Student Protest Repertoire; or, Where Do Correct Tactics Come From? -Jeffrey Wasserstrom; 5. Regulating Sex in Shanghai: The Reform of Prostitution in 1920 and 1951 -Gail Hershatter; 6. Progressive Journalism and Shanghai's Petty Urbanites: Zou Taofen and the Shenghuo Weekly, 1926-1945 -Wen-Hsin Yeh; 7. Migrant Culture in Shanghai: In Search of a Subei Identity -Emily Honig; 8. "The Pact with the Devil": The Relationship between the Green Gang and the French Concession Authorities, 1925-1935 -Brian G. Martin; 9. Strikes among Shanghai Silk Weavers, 1927-1937: The Awakening of a Labor Aristocracy -Elizabeth J. Perry; Index

378 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 1992

About the author

Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. (Chinese: 魏斐德; pinyin: Wèi Fěidé) was a prominent American scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley.

His father was the novelist Frederic E. Wakeman, Sr. (publishing as "Frederic Wakeman")
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Reviews

[Jessica Zu · Rating 4 out of 5]

read and skimmed. the data are still hugely useful but some of the arguments are dated already.