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The Green Gang and the Guomindang State: Du Yuesheng and the Politics of Shanghai, 1927—37

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Brian G. Martin
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The complex relationship that developed between Du Yuesheng's Shanghai Green Gang group and the Guomindang regime in the mid-1930s provides useful insights into the nature of the Nanjing government's rule and, in particular, into the manner it exercised power in its Jiangnan bailiwick. Although the Shanghai Green Gang bosses, in particular Du Yuesheng, were coopted by the new Guomindang State, their full integration into the regime's power structure in Shanghai did not occur until after 1932. Despite their participation in Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist coup of 1927, they enjoyed a somewhat unstable relationship with the Guomindang regime in the period 1927–31. The context of their incorporation into the Guomindang's system of power in Shanghai was the new accommodation between the Nanjing Government and the leadership of the Shanghai bourgeoisie following the political and economic crisis of 1932. In other words, the cooption of the Green Gang bosses was part of the new structures of state corporatism that were forged by the Guomindang regime in the wake of the Shanghai Incident.

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Coping with Shanghai: Means to Survival and Success in the Early Twentieth Century—A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , February 1995 , pp. 64 - 92
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995

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