Japanese occupation of Shanghai.

I just finished re-seeing Lust:Caution (gorgeous movie) and it's made me want to read books set in Shanghai during the occupational movement. I'd prefer the Japanese point of view on this era but would be interested in reading the Chinese viewpoint as well.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I think the only one I've read is one book by Ishiguro and that was the British viewpoint.

There are many books based on the Japanese occupation in Pacific Asia.
Some recommended books:

1. The Naked Island - Brandon Russell ( survivor's story)

2. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (fiction - classic)

3. The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang (Non-Fiction)

4. The Knights of Bushido - Non-Fiction (Japanese's
war occupation)

5. King Rat - Clavell (Fiction)

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There is one book about Shanghai occupied by Japanese Occupation.

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang is a collection of stories and novellas. Chang is the author of the short story "Lust, Caution" from which the Ang Lee movie was adapted.

I read The Rape of Nanking by the late Iris Chang several years ago, and I highly recommend it.

The 2009 German biopic about "Nanking's Schindler", John Rabe, starring Steve Buscemi as an American doctor, is a bit stiff but well worth a look (if it finds a US distributor; it opens in April in the UK).

Thanks for the recs so far. I'm trying to find a Japaneses author who has written on this subject matter as well.

You can contact

http://www.selectbooks.com.sg

This bookshop in Singapore specialised books on Asia
Pacific.

There is a book,

New Perspectives On The Japanese Occupation in
Malaya and Singapore, 1941-1945

Edited by Akashi Yoji & Yoshimura Mako

or view at

http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/SearchResults.aspx?strt=1&keywords=jAPANESE+o.....

Search: Japanese Occupation or

Nanking

There are many information on Japanese Occupation
in the Internet.

Lilisin:( Information of interest) ,

There is one book by Takashi Yoshida - "The Making of The Rape of Nanking". It is a Japanese's perspective
of the genocide at Nanking or Nanjing touching on the
history and memory in China, Japan and United States.
You can find details of the book at Amazon websites,
and at many other websites.

Thank you skoobdo. I'll have to look into these.
Maybe through those amazon will also come up with recommendations that are also fiction. Interesting stuff.

Lilisin,
These may be of interest:
Soldiers Alive by Tatsuzo Ishikawa, translated (English) with introduction and notes by Zeljko Cipris. (I've read this one and it is very good).
and another one which I've only had time to skim--
Shanghai: A Novel (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 33) by Riichi Yokomitsu, University of Michigan Press (2001), Paperback, 241 pages

Just read a review about Empire of the Sun which would fit in this category.

For those interested in the inspiration for this thread:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808357/

Robert

Flowers of War by Geling Yan is about the Japanese occupation of Nanking.