1. Origins of Shanghai native banks -- 2. The rise of foreign banks, 1847-1894 -- 3. The expansion of foreign banks and the search for national banks, 1895-1911 -- 4. The golden age of Shanghai banking, 1912-1927 -- 5. New foreign financial powers, 1915-1930 -- 6. Shanghai banking and the nationalist government, 1928-1937 -- 7. Wartime banking and finance, 1937-1945 -- 8. Collapse of the Nationalist monetary system, 1945-1949 -- 9. The socialist transformation of Shanghai banking, 1949-1952