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Wartime Shanghai (review)

Wartime Shanghai (review) Wen-hsin Yeh, editor. Wartime Shanghai. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. x, 198 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0­415­17441­4. Modern Chinese history has long awaited a study like Wen-hsin Yeh's Wartime Shanghai. Other than a few scattered publications, little is available in English on China's wartime experience, especially in major cities such as Beiping (Beijing), Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou. Yeh's volume thus fills a critical void. The book is a sequel to the earlier 1992 work, Shanghai Sojourners, edited by Yeh and Frederic Wakeman, Jr., but it touches on another period and a different theme. Whereas Shanghai Sojourners, a collection of essays by a group of distinguished contributors, focuses mainly on a less troubled era before the Sino-Japanese War (1937­1945), Wartime Shanghai, also by a group of leading scholars, concentrates on the Japanese invasion and the forced occupation of China's most important city. And whereas the former discusses Shanghai's multiple identities and urban culture, the latter centers on collaboration, resistance, and political terrorism. 566 China Review International: Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999 Wartime Shanghai, which originated at a conference at the University of California, Berkeley, in December 1994, explores diverse topics about a city under siege. Bernard Wasserstein http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Wartime Shanghai (review)

Hung, Chang-tai
China Review International , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 1, 1999
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Wen-hsin Yeh, editor. Wartime Shanghai. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. x, 198 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0­415­17441­4. Modern Chinese history has long awaited a study like Wen-hsin Yeh's Wartime Shanghai. Other than a few scattered publications, little is available in English on China's wartime experience, especially in major cities such as Beiping (Beijing), Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou. Yeh's volume thus fills a critical void. The book is a sequel to the earlier 1992 work, Shanghai Sojourners, edited by Yeh and Frederic Wakeman, Jr., but it touches on another period and a different theme. Whereas Shanghai Sojourners, a collection of essays by a group of distinguished contributors, focuses mainly on a less troubled era before the Sino-Japanese War (1937­1945), Wartime Shanghai, also by a group of leading scholars, concentrates on the Japanese invasion and the forced occupation of China's most important city. And whereas the former discusses Shanghai's multiple identities and urban culture, the latter centers on collaboration, resistance, and political terrorism. 566 China Review International: Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999 Wartime Shanghai, which originated at a conference at the University of California, Berkeley, in December 1994, explores diverse topics about a city under siege. Bernard Wasserstein

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