United States: bombing of Japan, 118n7; froze commercial relations with Japan, 36, 42; imperialism of, 359; Japanese fear of confronting, 235; landings of, 188, 205, 206; military strategy of, and Chongqing, 207; and repatriation of French in Shanghai, 275 In February 1942, ten-year old Olga Morris and her family were living in Singapore when the city fell to the invading Japanese army. foreign concessions: abolition of, 229, 251, 257, 258, 273–74; access by sea, 2; banks in, 74; building activity in, 30n59; communist activity in, 97–98; economy of, 5, 35, 212n9; labor unrest in, 215–16, 221; and Japanese occupation, 5, 8, 117–18, 261–62, 245–47; movement of plants to, 32; Nationalists and, 14, 129; “neutrality” in, 2, 215, 276; puppet currency in, 124; refugees in, 52; relocation of Chinese capitalists to, 47; as solitary islands, 46, 53, 60, 64, 97; war damages in, 20–21. See also French Concession; International Settlement Boasts about the victory of free-market capitalism in the wake of the collapse of the Communist state-directed system are premature and distract attention form the necessary recognition that it is the Japanese combination of the free market with a strong central state and a highly skilled professional bureaucracy that has really proved triumphant in our modern age of advanced technology. Only if we fully understand the reasons for Japanese success and American decline can we begin the arduous but crucial task of reconstructing the American polity to give it the power required to formulate and implement a national industrial policy that can regain for the United States its preeminent place among the world's industrial powers. Zhu Xuefan: and Green Gang organization in French concession, 179; and the Post Office Employees’ Union, 219; and the Shanghai General Labor Union, 210, 220; and the Shanghai United Committee, 193

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Dawn and Dusk - these are the most pleasant hours in Africa. The sun is either not yet scorching, or it is no longer so - it lets you be, lets you live." and oppression. Olga and her friends bravely raided the vegetable plot; "dodging the searchlights" and sometimes enduring severe punishments. She stood alongside the other women and children through the ordeal of Tenko in the blazing sun. They were used as slave labour. Halfway through their captivity, Olga's ten-year-old brother William was put into the men's camp, where he suffered terribly cruelty that scarred him for life. I have only read a few book by Kapuscinski, one of which was a Penguin Great Journeys book The Cobra's Heart, which is an excerpt from this book. I gave that five stars, and reading that book convinced me to buy more of this authors work, including this book, which I have finally made time for from my shelf. Liu Yanru: memoirs of, 90–91; shipments to New Fourth Army, 91–95, 103, 109; used social connections in sensitive operations, 105

Guomindang: anti-Chiang elements, 224; collusion with puppet police, 133; corruption of, 162; criticized in Great Way manifesto, 165; defections to Wang Jingwei, 189; dependence on Shanghai, 17, 85, 187; disillusionment of leftist artists with, 348; and the Green Gang, 187; Hu Hanmin faction, 161; and labor, 209–11, 222, 223, 224–25; military intelligence, 132; movement of capital, 69; national salvation propaganda, 194; negotiations with Wang Jingwei regime, 200–201; on population growth, 314n34; profiteering by, 132; Shanghai party branch, 188–89; smuggling apparatus, 134–38, 202; taxation by, 175; terrorism by, 4, 52, 98; and U.S. imperialism, 359–60. See also Guomindang underground economy: command, 5, 34n80; controlled, 6, 11, 37, 217; decline of 1941 to 1945, 35–41; in the foreign concessions, 5; monopolistic policies of Japan, 5, 18, 34, 37, 40, 41, 42; regional, 17; revival of 1938–1939, 4, 11, 26–27, 28–29, 34–35, 212n9, 235–36; wartime, 4–5

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patriotism: in films and broadcasts, 12, 299, 356; Jiangbei people and, 217, 289n41; in magazines and periodicals, 12, 304; motivation of civilians helping New Fourth Army, 102; of ordinary people, 359; and profits, 65, 70 baojia system: instituted by Great Way Government, 179; in model peace zones, 141–42; mentioned, 250; and rice supplies, 121n24, 127; in the Western District, 173n30 refugees: crossing the Garden Bridge into the International Settlement, 19; and demand for flour, 59; and demand for radio, 282, 286; donations to, 317, 319, 320; experiences of, broadcast by Yan Xueting, 279–80, 288; and food supplies, 120; in the foreign concessions, 237, 258; as smugglers, 129; as source of cheap labor and demand, 47; in South City, 159n3, 181; women, 303, 310–11, 311–13; from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, 29 women: in the communist underground, 349; educated, 312–13, 349, 352–53; life during wartime portrayed in Liren xing, 348–59; moral responsibility of, 321; new-style, 352; proletarian, 348; role of, in state and society, 308n14; sustaining ordinary lives during Japanese occupation, 302, 322–23; and wartime print culture, 12, 326–27, 328, 344; writers, 337–38, 340–42, 343–44. See also domesticitySingapore: branch of New Asia Pharmaceutical Company in, 70; British policy and, 240; and distribution of medical manual, 80n33 Zhu Yuzhen: difficulty controlling self-government committees, 174; established workers’ league, 216; and Great Way Government police force, 161, 179; and taxation, 180 Zhenjiang (Jiangsu): flour mills in, 124; smuggling of goods to Communist bases through, 92, 93, 94 Todos los capítulos tienen su particular interés pero los que más se me han quedado grabados son el dedicado al terrible dictador de Uganda Idi Amin Dada, llamado el carnicero de Uganda , que junto con otros dictadores de su calaña como Bokassa, Milton Obote, Juvenal Habyarimana y Mobutu Sese Seko sembraron el terror y la tragedia en sus países y merecen estar entre los grandes villanos de la historia. Otro capítulo que ha quedado en mi memoria es el dedicado al genocidio de Ruanda (Tutsis contra Hutus), también lleno de dramatismo y horrores, así como el dedicado a la formación y transformación de Liberia.