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 ru

An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai's International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret a

First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the

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 t