About the Author

Frederic Wakeman Jr. is Haas Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on China including The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (California, 1985), and Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (California, 1994, also available in paperback).

Reviews

"Well documented with an impressive bibliography of Chinese, Japanese, and Western sources and archives from the British Foreign Office. . . . Professor Wakeman has done assiduous research and produced a remarkable book which makes a considerable contribution to the academic field."--"Political Science Quarterly