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Shanghai Sojourners (China Research Monograph)

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China Research Monograph 40, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies | Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors; Map; Introduction -Frederic Wakeman, Jr., and Wen-Hsin Yeh; 1. The Shanghai Bankers' Association, 1915-1927: Modernization and the Institutionalization of Local Solidarities -Marie-Claire Bergère; 2. Three Roads into Shanghai's Market: Japanese, Western, and Chinese Companies in the Match Trade, 1895-1937 -Sherman Cochran; 3. New Culture, Old Habits: Native-Place Organization and the May Fourth Movement -Bryna Goodman; 4. The Evolution of the Shanghai Student Protest Repertoire; or, Where Do Correct Tactics Come From? -Jeffrey Wasserstrom; 5. Regulating Sex in Shanghai: The Reform of Prostitution in 1920 and 1951 -Gail Hershatter; 6. Progressive Journalism and Shanghai's Petty Urbanites: Zou Taofen and the Shenghuo Weekly, 1926-1945 -Wen-Hsin Yeh; 7. Migrant Culture in Shanghai: In Search of a Subei Identity -Emily Honig; 8. "The Pact with the Devil": The Relationship between the Green Gang and the French Concession Authorities, 1925-1935 -Brian G. Martin; 9. Strikes among Shanghai Silk Weavers, 1927-1937: The Awakening of a Labor Aristocracy -Elizabeth J. Perry; Index

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Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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