List of non-fiction books about Shanghai 1920s–1950

Shanghai 1920s to 1950 - non-fiction Books, also DVDs
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Non-fiction books
* A Curious Cage: A Shanghai Journal 1941-45, Peggy Abkhazi
* Shanghai, Electric and Lurid City, Barbara Baker
* Gudao, Lone Islet, The War Years in Shanghai, a childhood memoir, Margaret Blair
* Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes, A Memoir of Shanghai 1933-1939, Dora Sanders Carney
* Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1918-1954, Andrew Field
* Passivity, Resistance and Collaboration, Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945, Poshek Fu
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* All About Shanghai, a Standard Guidebook, 1934-1935, H.J.Lethbridge
* Captives of Empire: The Japanese Internment of Allied Civilians in China, 1941-1945, Greg Leck
* Shanghai Modern. The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in Shanghai 1930-1945, Leo Ou-fan Lee
* In Search of Old Shanghai, Pan Ling
* Beyond the Neon Lights, Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, Hanchao Lu
* The Savior of Shanghai, Robert Jacquinot, SJ and his safety zone in Shanghai, 1937, John Meehan SJ
* Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai, Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952 John Meehan SJ
* Shanghai, Harriet Sergeant
* The Lure of the Modern, writing modernism in semi-colonial China 1917-1937, Shu-mei Shih
* Shanghai Foxtrot translated by Sean Macdonald, Mu Shiying
* The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crisis, Frederick Wakeman Jr.
* Shanghai Love, Catherine Vance Yeh
* A Foreign Kid in World War II Shanghai, George Kulstad
* Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels, Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao
* Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution, Helen Zia
DVDs
For atmosphere and sounds of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s see the following DVDs:
*The White Countess, (the last Merchant Ivory film)
*Lust, Caution, made from a story by the quintessential Shanghai writer, Eileen Chang (X rated).
 
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