In the Shadow of the Rising Sun Shanghai under Japanese Occupation [Paperback]

The authors of this 2004 volume examine the Chinese War of Resistance against the Japanese in the Shanghai area.This book examines how ordinary men and women, Chinese as well as foreign, endured the Japanese military assault and occupation of the city of Shanghai during the Chinese War of Resistance (1937-1945). It rejects the conventional demand to present their stories in terms of heroic resistance versus shameful collaboration with the enemy. The volume presents, instead, a variegated picture showing how the city's dwellers mobilized a variety of social networks to circumvent enemy strictures, employing strategies that kept alive a culture and an economy that were vital to the survival of the much brutalized population.This book examines how ordinary men and women, Chinese as well as foreign, endured the Japanese military assault and occupation of the city of Shanghai during the Chinese War of Resistance (1937-1945). It rejects the conventional demand to present their stories in terms of heroic resistance versus shameful collaboration with the enemy. The volume presents, instead, a variegated picture showing how the city's dwellers mobilized a variety of social networks to circumvent enemy strictures, employing strategies that kept alive a culture and an economy that were vital to the survival of the much brutalized population.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.Preface; Introduction Christian Henriot; Part I: 1. Shanghai indusl³: