In this first attempt, this bibliography will focus on English language secondary scholarship and only include a small number of works in the huge literature that exists on the history of Shanghai, with an emphasis on works that make use of SMP sources, discuss the police, or else are on the period of time that the bulk of SMP records comes from.

• Baxter, Christopher. ‘The Secret Intelligence Service and China: The Case of Hilaire Noulens, 1923–1932’. In Britain in Global Politics Volume 1, edited by Michael L. Dockrill and Keith Hamilton, 132–52. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367822_6.
• Bergère, Marie-Claire. Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity. Stanford University Press, 2009.
• ———. The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911-1937. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Bickers, Robert. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. Penguin UK, 2004.
• ———. ‘Moving Stories: Memorialisation and Its Legacies in Treaty Port China’. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 42, no. 5 (20 October 2014): 826–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2014.959716.
• ———. ‘Shanghailanders: The Formation and Identity of the British Settler Community in Shanghai 1843-1937’. Past & Present, no. 159 (1 May 1998): 161–211.
• Bickers, Robert A., and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. ‘Shanghai’s “Dogs and Chinese Not Admitted” Sign: Legend, History and Contemporary Symbol’. The China Quarterly, no. 142 (1995): 444–66.
• Cao, Yin. From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945. BRILL, 2017.
• Cassel, Par. ‘Excavating Extraterritoriality: The “Judicial Sub-Prefect” as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai’. Late Imperial China 24, no. 2 (2003): 156–82.
• Cassel, Par Kristoffer. Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
• Coble, Parks M. The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1986.
• Cochran, Sherman, ed. Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1999.
• Eber, Irene. Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City. Place of publication not identified: De Gruyter, 2016.
• Farrer, James, and Andrew David Field. Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Field, Andrew. Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954. The Chinese University Press, 2010.
• Fogel, Joshua A. ‘“Shanghai-Japan”: The Japanese Residents’ Association of Shanghai’. The Journal of Asian Studies 59, no. 4 (1 November 2000): 927–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2659217.
• Fu, Poshek. Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. 1st ed. Stanford University Press, 1997.
• Gao, Bei. Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy Toward European Jewish Refugees During World War II. Oxford: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Goodman, Bryna. Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937. University of California Press, 1995.
• Henriot, Christian. Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• ———. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford University Press, 2016.
• ———. Shanghai, 1927-1937: Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization. University of California Press, 1993.
• ———. ‘The Shanghai Bund in Myth and History: An Essay Through Textual and Visual Sources’. Journal of Modern Chinese History 4, no. 1 (2010): 1–27.
• Henriot, Christian, and Wen-Hsin Yeh, eds. In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. University of California Press, 1997.
• Hochstadt, Steve, ed. A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai. Electronic book. Touro University Press. De Gruyter: Academic Studies Press, 2019.
• Honig, Emily. Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980. Yale University Press, 1992.
• ———. ‘Invisible Inequalities: The Status of Subei People in Contemporary Shanghai’. The China Quarterly, no. 122 (1990): 273–92.
• ———. ‘The Politics of Prejudice: Subei People in Republican-Era Shanghai’. Modern China 15, no. 3 (1989): 243–74.

Horesh, Niv. ‘Why Shanghai? On Engagement and Empiricism in the Field of Chinese Urban History’. China Review International 16, no. 4 (2009): 419–39. https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.2009.0095.

• Jackson, Isabella. ‘The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai’. Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 06 (2012): 1672–1704. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X12000078.
• Johnson, Linda Cooke. Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858. Stanford University Press, 1995.
• Jordan, Donald Allan. China’s Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932. University of Michigan Press, 2001.
• Larkin, Thomas. The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.
• Lee, Leo-ou-fan. Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of New Urban Culture in China, 1930-45. Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Li, Jie. Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life. Global Chinese Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
• Liang, Samuel Y. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners’ City, 1853-98. Routledge, 2012.
• Litten, Frederick S. ‘The Noulens Affair’. The China Quarterly 138 (June 1994): 492–512. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000035852.
• Lu, Hanchao. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. University of California Press, 1999.
• Martin, Brian G. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937. University of California Press, 1996.
• Perry, Elizabeth J. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford University Press, 1995.
• Rankin, Mary Backus. Early Chinese Revolutionaries: Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911. Harvard University * Press, 2013.
• Reed, Christopher A. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937. UBC Press, 2011.
• Ristaino, Marcia R. Port of Last Resort: Diaspora Communities of Shanghai. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.
• Shen, Shuang. Cosmopolitan Publics: Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
• Streets-Salter, Heather. ‘The Noulens Affair in East and Southeast Asia: International Communism in the Interwar Period’. Journal of American-East Asian Relations 21, no. 4 (26 November 2014): 394–414. https://doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02104006.
• Swislocki, Mark. Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai. Stanford University Press, 2008.
• Wakeman, Frederic. Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. University of California Press, 1996.
• Wakeman, Frederic E. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941. First Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Wakeman, Frederic E., and Wen-Hsin Yeh, eds. Shanghai Sojourners. Berkeley, Calif: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1992.
• Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. ‘Policing Modern Shanghai’. The China Quarterly, no. 115 (1 September 1988): 408–40.
• Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments. Routledge, 2008.
• Yeh, Catherine. Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850-1910. University of Washington Press, 2006.
• Yeh, Wen-Hsin. Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949. University of California Press, 2008.
• ———, ed. Wartime Shanghai. New York: Routledge, 1998.
• Yue, Meng. Shanghai and the Edges of Empires. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
• Zhang, Yingjin. Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford University Press, 1999.