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The Shanghai Green Gang

Author : Brian G. Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520916432
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Shanghai Green Gang written by Brian G. Martin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence—from diplomatic dispatches to memoirs to police reports—to produce the most comprehensive account of this chaotic period of Chinese history. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author broadens our understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history and sheds light on the history of drug trafficking and organized crime worldwide. Martin argues that the Green Gang, the most powerful secret society in China during the first half of the twentieth century, was a resilient social organization that adapted successfully to the complex environment of a modernizing urban society. Illustrating its multilayered and complex relations with the bourgeoisie, the industrial proletariat, and the foreign and domestic political authorities, Martin demonstrates how these factors led to the Green Gang's absorption into the corporate state system after 1932.

The Shanghai Green Gang

Author : Brian G. Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520916433
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Shanghai Green Gang written by Brian G. Martin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence—from diplomatic dispatches to memoirs to police reports—to produce the most comprehensive account of this chaotic period of Chinese history. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author broadens our understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history and sheds light on the history of drug trafficking and organized crime worldwide. Martin argues that the Green Gang, the most powerful secret society in China during the first half of the twentieth century, was a resilient social organization that adapted successfully to the complex environment of a modernizing urban society. Illustrating its multilayered and complex relations with the bourgeoisie, the industrial proletariat, and the foreign and domestic political authorities, Martin demonstrates how these factors led to the Green Gang's absorption into the corporate state system after 1932.

Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

Author : Frederic Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520207610
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 written by Frederic Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study of the modern Chinese police force shows how the Nationalist forces under General Chiang Kai-shek set about to return Shanghai to Chinese rule, competing with the consular police forces of France, Japan and the International Settlement.

Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

Author : Frederic Wakeman Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520918658
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 written by Frederic Wakeman Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-02-17 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences that surfaced among Shanghai's Chinese, the influence of imperialism and Western-trained officials. Parts of this book read like a spy novel, with secret police, torture, assassination; and power struggles among the French, International Settlement, and Japanese consular police within Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to prove that the Chinese could rule Shanghai and the country by themselves, rather than be exploited and dominated by foreign powers. His efforts to reclaim the crime-ridden city failed, partly because of the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, but also because the Nationalist police force was itself corrupted by the city. Wakeman's exhaustively researched study is a major contribution to the study of the Nationalist regime and to modern Chinese urban history. It also shows that twentieth-century China has not been characterized by discontinuity, because autocratic government—whether Nationalist or Communist—has prevailed.

The Chinese Mafia

Author : Peng Wang
Publisher : Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
ISBN 13 : 9780198758402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Mafia written by Peng Wang and published by Clarendon Studies in Criminolo. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filing a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials and street gangsters-emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly changing society. China's economic reforms have been accompanied by a surge of social problems, such as ineffective legal institutions, booming black markets and rampant corruption. This has resulted in the rise of extra-legal means of protection and enforcement: such is the demand for protection that cannot be fulfilled by state-sponsored institutions. This book develops a new socio-economic theory of mafia emergence, incorporating Granovetter's argument on social embeddedness into Gambetta's economic theory of the mafia, to suggest that the rise of the Chinese mafia is primarily due to the negative influence of guanxi (a Chinese version of personal connections) on the effectiveness of the formal legal system. This interplay has two major consequences. First, the weakened ability of the formal legal system sees street gangsters (the 'Black Mafia') providing protection and quasi law enforcement. Second, it allows for escalating abuse of power by public officials; as a result, corrupt officials (the 'Red Mafia') sell public appointments, exchange illegal benefits with businesses and protect local gangs. Together, these outcomes have seen street gangs shift their operations away from traditional areas (e.g. gambling, prostitution and drug distribution), whilst corrupt public officials have moved to offer illegal services to the criminal underworld, including the safeguarding organized crime groups and protection of illegal entrepreneurs. A study of crime and deviance located within a fast growing economy, The Chinese Mafia offers a unique understanding of these activities within contemporary Chinese society and a new perspective for understanding the interaction between corruption and organized crime. It will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the fields of criminology and criminal justice, sociology, and political science, with particular interest for those researching China and Chinese politics and governance.

City of Devils

Author : Paul French
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250170583
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book City of Devils written by Paul French and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1930s, Shanghai was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made--and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notorious of those outlaws. An ex-Navy boxing champion, he escaped from prison in the States, spotted a craze for gambling and rose to become the Slot King of Shanghai. 'Dapper' Joe Farren--a Jewish boy who fled Vienna's ghetto with a dream of dance halls--ruled the nightclubs. His chorus lines rivaled Ziegfeld's. In 1940 they bestrode the Shanghai Badlands like kings, while all around the Solitary Island was poverty, starvation and genocide. They thought they ruled Shanghai; but the city had other ideas. This is the story of their rise to power, their downfall, and the trail of destruction they left in their wake."--Jacket

Spymaster

Author : Frederic Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234073
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Spymaster written by Frederic Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wakeman's authoritative biography of the ruthlessly powerful man who led the Chinese Secret Service during the violent and tumultuous period after the fall of the Imperial system.

The Shanghai Badlands

Author : Frederic E. Wakeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528719
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Shanghai Badlands written by Frederic E. Wakeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but warfare was not restricted to that zone. A spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the noses of the authorities. Thanks to the release of secret Chinese police files by the CIA, the inner workings of these terrorist groups and their links to the notorious Green Gang can now be exposed for the first time. In so doing, this book also explores the social history of Shanghai's underworld, the worsening relations between the US and Japan before World War II, and the rivalry between leaders Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei during China's War of Resistance.

The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937

Author : Parks M. Coble
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674805361
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937 written by Parks M. Coble and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1986 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture--that Nanking sought to control the capitalists politically, to prevent them from having a voice in the political structure, and to milk the wealth of the urban economy for government coffers. This study documents major political conflicts between the capitalists and the government and demonstrates that the regime gradually suppressed the main organizations of the capitalists and gained control of many of their financial and industrial enterprises. This is the first systematic examination of the political role of the Shanghai capitalists during the Nanking decade. A number of related issues--the operation of the government bond market, the role of the Shanghai underworld and its ties to Chiang Kai-shek, the personalities and policies of key government officials such as TV. Soong and H.H. Kung, the Japanese attempt to control the economic policies of the Nanking government, and the growth of "bureaucratic capitalism"--are brought into focus.

The World’s First SWAT Team

Author : Leroy Thompson
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1783034351
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The World’s First SWAT Team written by Leroy Thompson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins. Adjoining the Settlement were the French Concession and the Chinese city, both hotbeds of intrigue and crime themselves. Called the most sinful in the world, the Settlement relied on its police: the Shanghai Municipal Police, one of the most advanced forces in the world. After an incident in 1926 when the police fired upon demonstrators, which resulted in unrest and strikes, W. E. Fairbairn was charged with forming a specialized unit to deal with riots and armed encounters. The resulting Reserve Unit became the prototype for future SWAT teams, as it developed tactics for using snipers in barricade and hostage incidents, techniques for use of the submachine gun during raids, hostage rescue tactics, aggressive riot-dispersal tactics and various other tactical innovations. Out of the experiences of the unit came many of the techniques later taught by W. E. Fairbairn, E. A. Sykes, Pat O'Neill and others to the Commandos, Rangers, SOE, OSS, 1st Special Service Force and other Second World War elite units. Those same techniques still resonate today with special forces and police tactical units.

Old Shanghai

Author : Lynn Pan
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Old Shanghai written by Lynn Pan and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gangland International

Author : James Morton
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751522372
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Gangland International written by James Morton and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the changing definition of organised crime, this history traces the complex links, trading and even homage which extends between the criminals of one country and another. Morton also looks at local gangs and their international links.

Sisters and Strangers

Author : Emily Honig
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804720120
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Sisters and Strangers written by Emily Honig and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shanghai, China's largest industrial center prior to 1949, cotton was king and the majority of mill workers were women. This book presents rich information on all aspects of the life of this group of urban workers. Book jacket.

Triad Societies: Triad societies in Hong Kong

Author : Kingsley Bolton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415243988
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Triad Societies: Triad societies in Hong Kong written by Kingsley Bolton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.

Assassin's Hood

Author : Garrett Hutson
Publisher : Warfleigh Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0998281360
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Assassin's Hood written by Garrett Hutson and published by Warfleigh Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A night out in Shanghai can turn deadly, especially if you’re Japanese… Shanghai, 1936. A series of assassinations of Japanese businessmen, sailors, and officials has struck fear into the International Settlement, and the Chinese government is blaming communist insurgents. It doesn't take long for Douglas Bainbridge to get pulled into the political intrigue. When a friend of Doug's is arrested for the assassination of a Japanese secret agent, Doug is certain she didn’t do it. Since Chinese officials don’t seem to care about Wong Mei-ling's actual guilt or innocence, Doug and his girlfriend Lucy Kinzler take it upon themselves to find proof of the real killers, and save Wong Mei-ling from execution for a murder she didn’t commit. Book Two in the Death in Shanghai series, Assassin’s Hood is a traditional historical mystery, but with crossover appeal to fans of spy fiction, and gay & lesbian fiction.

Empire Made Me

Author : Robert A. Bickers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231131322
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Empire Made Me written by Robert A. Bickers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare view of empire from the bottom up and a glimpse of the making of modern China. Robert Bickers mines the letters of Richard Tinkler along with archival files to create a fascinating and much-needed narrative of everyday life in the colonial world and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience that will permanently affect our view of it.

At the Crossroads of Empires

Author : Nara Dillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Crossroads of Empires written by Nara Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republican Shanghai was a heterogeneous city with no central institutions. Yet somehow it functioned coherently. What held the city together? The authors argue that networks of middlemen with boundless connections provided the glue.