Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Shenbao and the Dianshizhai
2. The Shanghai literati
3. The nature of the Dianshizhai
1. Roads and transportation
2. Water supply and hygiene
3. Gas and electricity for public lighting
4. Urban life in the settlements
5. Immigrants to Shanghai
6. Conflicting legal systems
7. Law enforcements in the settlements
1. The Shanghai attitude towards things foreign
2. Concepts of health and the human body
3. Changes in the pattern of human relations
4. Relations between the sexes
5. Challenges to the traditional social order
6. Vagrants and criminals
1. Official attitudes
2. Attitude of the literati
3. Organizers of religious activities
4. Social environment and its effects
Afterword
Key to Illustrations
Bibliography
Index