China: Shanghai
(see also China, China: Revolution & Anti-Japanese War, China: Maoist Era, China since 1980)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bickers, Robert. Changing Shanghai's 'Mind": Publicity, Reform, & the British in Shanghai, 1928-1931 (London: China Society, 1992).
__________. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (NY: Columbia, 2004).
Clifford, Nicholas R. Spoilt Children of Empire: Westerners in Shanghai & the Chinese Revolution of the 1920s (Hanover NH: U. Press of New England, 1991).
Cochran, Sherman. Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Ithaca NY: Cornell East Asia Program, 1999).
Collar, Hugh. Captive in Shanghai (NY: Oxford, 1990). World War II.
Fu, Poshek. Passivity, Resistance & Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 (Stanford CA: Stanford U., 1993).
Gimpel, Denise. Lost Voices of Modernity: A Chinese Popular Fiction Magazine in Context (Honolulu: U. of Hawai'i, 2001).
Goodman, Bryna. Native Place, City & Nation: Regional Networks & Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (Berkeley: U. of California, 1995).
Goto-Shibata, Harumi. Japan & Britain in Shanghai, 1925-1931 (NY: St. Martin's, 1995).
Grant, Joan. Worm-Eaten Hinges: Tension & Turmoil in Shanghai, 1988-89 (Melbourne, VIc.; Hyland House, 1991).
Henriot, Christian & Wen-hsin Yeh (eds.) In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation (NY: Cambridge, 2004).
Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution & Modernity in 20th-C. Shanghai (Berkeley: U. of California, 1997).
Honig, Emily. Sisters & Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949 (Stanford CA: Stanford, 1986).
Jordan, Donald A. China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932 (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan, 2001).
Laing, Ellen Johnston. Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters & Visual Culture in Early 20th-C. Shanghai (Honolulu: U.of Hawai'i, 2004).
McGlashan, M. Nona. O Days of Wind & Moon (Santa Barbara: Fithian, 1997). Catholic Sister of Social Service's memoir of postwar era.
Meyer, Maisie J. From the Rivers of Babylon to the Whangpoo: A Century of Sephardi Jewish Life in Shanghai (Lanham MD: U. Press of America, 2003).
Perry, Elizabeth J.& Li Xun. Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (Boulder: Westview, 1997).
Ristaino, Marcia R. Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai (Stanford CA: Stanford U., 2001).
Sergeant, Harriet. Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939 (NY: Crown, 1990).
Smith, Stephen A. A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927 (Honolulu: U. of Hawai'i,2000).
__________. Like Cattle & Horses: Nationalism & Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927 (Durham NC: Duke, 2002).
Wakeman, Frederic E. Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Berkeley: U. of California, 1995).
Wasserstein, Bernard. Secret War in Shanghai (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1999). During World War II.
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Pan, Lynn with Xue Liyong & Qian Zonghao. Shanghai: A Century of Change in Photographs, 1843-1949 (Hong Kong: Hai Feng, 1993).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Exil Shanghai" [1996], dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 245m. From ATARA Releasing. Personal reminiscences of Jewish life there.
"Shanghai Ghetto" [2005], dir. Dana Janklowicz-Mann & Amir Mann, 95m. Jewish community of escapees from Nazis who settled in Japanese-controlled Shanghai.
"The World of the Dragon" [1996], BBC, 27m.