Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

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Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wakeman, Frederic E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
1928-1937
Police > China > Shanghai.
15.75 history of Asia.
Police.
Social conditions
Polizei
Kriminalpolitik
Kwo min tang.
Lokaal bestuur.
Politie.
Criminaliteit.
Politique criminelle > Shanghai (Chine) > 20e siècle.
Police > Shanghai (Chine) > 20e siècle.
Criminalité > Lutte contre > Chine > Shanghai > 1900-1945.
Criminalité urbaine > Chine > Shanghai > 1900-1945.
Police > Chine > Shanghai > 1900-1945.
Geschichte 1927-1937.
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions.
China > History > 1928-1937.
Chine > Histoire > 1928-1937.
China.
China > Shanghai.
Schanghai
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The context: Law and order ; From constabulary to police ; Foul elements
  • pt. 2. New policing conceptualizations: Policing the new civic order ; Asserting sovereignty through policing ; Crime and social control
  • pt. 3. Organized "crime": Vice ; Narcotics ; Reds
  • pt. 4. Implications of political choices for policing: Making choices ; The impact of the Japanese on municipal policing ; A second chance : the administration of Mayor Wu Tiecheng
  • pt. 5. The limitations of the new civic order: The New Life and National Salvation movements ; Nationalizing the police and making criminality respectable ; Criminalizing the government
  • Conclusion: Resolutions.

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