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Old Shanghai Gangsters in Paradise Lynn Pan 9789814351423 Books Reviews
This is a wonderful history of Shanghai told through interlocking portraits of several Chinese who played prominent roles in Shanghai history from 1900 to 1946. They are-
Du Yue Sheng, Shanghai's richest and most powerful secret society chief who controlled the opium trade who turned patriot fighting the Japanese invaders. Du died of asthma in 1951 in Hong Kong age 63 ( p 231 )
Wang Jing Wei, -the anointed successor of Sun Yat Sen- the Chinese Petain who sought a peace treaty with the Japanese and set up a puppet government in Nanjing ( p 135 ). He died in Japan of illness age 61 on 10 Oct 1944. ( P 166 )
Wang Jing Wei's wife was tried after the war as a Japanese collaborator. Sentenced to life imprisonment she refused a request from Mao Tse Tung conveyed through the widow of Sun Yat Sen to sign a confession of error in exchange for release on the ground that that would dishonour the sincere efforts of her husband. She died aged 69 in the 13th year of her imprisonment in 1959 in a Shanghai prison. ( P 205 )
General Dai Li the head of Chiang Kai Shek's powerful secret police. He died in a plane crash in Nanjing. ( P 195 )
Hu Lan Cheng a Minister in the puppet government of Wang Jing Wei. One of his 3 wives is Zhang Ai Ling a famous young writer. When they married she was 23. He was 38 years old ( p 174 )
When I read this book I was intrigued by the name Zhang Ai Ling and the fact that she was a famous young writer. My little grey cells, as Poirot would put it, recall that a few years ago a famous Chinese movie was released based on a novella set in wartime Shanghai by a Zhang Ai Ling. I was right upon checking. The movie Lust Caution was released in 2007.It is a Chinese espionage thriller film directed by Taiwanese American director Ang Lee.
"Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him." With good reason, historian Lynn Pan focuses on telling the story of the legions of shady movers and shakers in pre-WWII Shanghai as a way of illuminating the Chinese experience of the first half of the 20th century. Her highly readable, meticulously researched account takes us inside the opium dens, casinos, and back rooms of the crooks - both in and outside government - who shaped the city and the destiny of the entire country. Every important thing that happened in China during this time period, including the roots of WWII in Asia, was connected in some way to the gangsters who made Shanghai their home and base of operations. Pan starts and ends her story with the infamous gangster Du Yuesheng, the greatest gangster of them all. He remains an iconic figure; his personal history as an orphan who became the richest man in town and a virtual kingmaker before his self-imposed exile to Hong Kong mirrors the city's rise to indulgent wealth and subsequent fall to Communism. Du was deeply involved with the Nationalist government, making this book a uniquely illuminating portrait of China's key leaders during a time of great upheaval for China.
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