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      Fall of Imperial China

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

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      Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      Prewar Shanghai means casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, and Comitern secret agents. This title provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between…

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      Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      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…

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      Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek’s secret service during WWII. This work traces Dai’s rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green…

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      The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      In 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…

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      The Great Enterprise, Volume 2: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      In 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’…

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      History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung’s Thought

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

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      History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung’s Thought

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

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      Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      This study of the most colourful and corrupt city in the world during the 1920s and 30s provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret…

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      Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      A collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E Wakeman, Jr. It offers narratives of critical historical events…

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      The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr (University of California, Berkeley)

      Between 1937 and 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authorities who occupied most of Shanghai. The release of secret Chinese…

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      The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941

      Frederic Wakeman, Jr (University of California, Berkeley)

      Between 1937 and 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authorities who occupied most of Shanghai. The release of secret Chinese…

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      Reappraising Republican China

      This work testifies to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Reviewing many aspects of contemporary research, its coverage includes the transition from the late Qing…

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      Perspectives on Modern China: Four Anniversaries

      Kenneth Lieberthal,Joyce Kallgren,Roderick MacFarquhar,Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      Considers four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world…

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      Perspectives on Modern China: Four Anniversaries

      Kenneth Lieberthal,Joyce Kallgren,Roderick MacFarquhar,Frederic Wakeman, Jr.

      Considers four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world…

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      Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China

      Brown examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. He seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists…

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