Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Övrig)
avFrederic Wakeman
ISBN: 9780520207615 - UTGIVEN: 1996-10-30Prewar 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 [...]
Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 (Övrig)
avFrederic Wakeman
ISBN: 9780520212398 - UTGIVEN: 1997-12-30Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events[...]
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service (Övrig)
avFrederic Wakeman
ISBN: 9780520234079 - UTGIVEN: 2003-05-23The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of 'China's Himmler', based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the[...]
Great Enterprise, The: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: v. 1 (Övrig)
avFrederic Wakeman
ISBN: 9780520235182 - UTGIVEN: 1986-01-22In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth [...]
Great Enterprise, The: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: v. 2 (Övrig)
avFrederic Wakeman
ISBN: 9780520235199 - UTGIVEN: 1986-01-22In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seve[...]
Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays (Övrig)
avJr. Frederic E. Wakeman
ISBN: 9780520256064 - UTGIVEN: 2009-03-10This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives of critical historical events as well as sweeping analyses o[...]
The Shanghai Badlands (Pocket)
avFrederic E. Wakeman
ISBN: 9780521528719 - UTGIVEN: 2002-08Between 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[...]
