上海汇集了不同时期、不同风格的建筑，海派文化、红色文化与江南文化等众多元素在此融合衍生，形成了独一无二的上海建筑文化，为上海展现别样的人文气象提供了深厚积淀。本书基于“建筑可阅读”的理念，用精选的图片、简洁的语言介绍了上海市富有特色的十几条马路，如安福路、武康路、复兴路、南昌路、思南路等，通过介绍，读者不仅能够阅读位于这些马路上的优秀历史建筑，欣赏不同历史时期建筑的千姿百态，而且能更深入地了解掩盖在这些建筑背后的人文故事，进而可以从另一个侧面了解上海市城市建设海纳百川、包容万千的发展史。

Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but warfare was not restricted to that zone. A spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the noses of the authorities. Thanks to the release of secret Chinese police files by the CIA, the inner workings of these terrorist groups and their links to the notorious Green Gang can now be exposed for the first time. In so doing, this book also explores the social history of Shanghai's underworld, the worsening relations between the US and Japan before World War II, and the rivalry between leaders Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei during China's War of Resistance.