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

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BOOKS – non-fiction

• 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

• ''Gow’s Guide to Shanghai (1924)
• ''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 [...] and Urban Crisis, Frederick Wakeman Jr.
• ''Shanghai Love, Catherine Vance Yeh

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).