Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937
✍ Frederic Wakeman
📂 Library
📅 1996
🏛 University of California Press
🌐 English
<div>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