Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.
1. Prologue: Shanghai besieged, 1937-45 / Wen-hsin Yeh -- 2. Introduction: the struggle to survive / Wen-hsin Yeh -- 3. Ambiguities of occupation: foreign resisters and collaborators in wartime Shanghai / Bernard Wasserstein -- 4. The other Japanese community: leftwing Japanese activities in wartime Shanghai / Joshua A. Fogel -- 5. Chinese capitalists and the Japanese: collaboration and resistance in the Shanghai area, 1937-45 / Parks M. Coble -- 6. Projecting ambivalence: Chinese cinema in semi-occupied Shanghai, 1937-41 / Poshek Fu -- 7. Urban warfare and underground resistance: heroism in the Chinese secret service during the War of Resistance / Wen-hsin Yeh -- 8. Urban controls in wartime Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- 9. The purge in Shanghai, 1945-46: the Sarly affair and the end of the French Concession / Marie-Claire Bergere