In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation

About this book

Rejecting conventional demands, this book examines how ordinary men and women, Chinese as well as foreign, endured the Japanese military assault and occupation of Shanghai during the Chinese War of Resistance (1937-1945). Instead of presenting their stories in terms of heroic resistance versus shameful collaboration with the enemy, the volume reveals how the city's dwellers mobilized a variety of social networks to circumvent enemy strictures. They employed strategies that kept alive a culture and an economy that were vital to the survival of the brutalized population.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780521103343

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

March 19, 2009

Pages

408

Weight

21 oz

Subject

History