The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanized environment? How did the interactions of social organizations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting? Recent historiography has almost completely ignored the ways in which death created such immense social change in China. Now, Scythe and the City corrects this problem. Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 offers new insights into this crucial aspect of modern society in a global commercial hub and guides readers through this tumultuous era that radically redefined the Chinese relationship with death.

《上海史研究译丛》精选当今海外一流学者有关近现代上海史研究的经典之作，可读性和学术性兼具，并由国内专家翻译。海外学者以独特视角、独有材料和独到见解，对上海历史作出有别于以往的解读，内容涉及上海道台、警察、妓女、工业家、侨民、同乡会、救火会、苏北人等众生相。 本书以1927-1937年的上海市政府为对象，探讨市政府创立和运作的政治和社会环境，可采用的人力和财力资源及其实施市政的成败得失，试图将之作为特例了解国民党政权下一个市政府的运作情况。这是一部在西方中国学界很有影响的中国学名著。

《上海史研究译丛》精选当今海外一流学者有关近现代上海史研究的经典之作，可读性和学术性兼具，并由国内专家翻译。海外学者以独特视角、独有材料和独到见解，对上海历史作出有别于以往的解读，内容涉及上海道台、警察、妓女、工业家、侨民、同乡会、救火会、苏北人等众生相。 这是一本有关中国妓女史和性学史的研究专著。本书作者以非凡的理论勇气和扎实的学识水平，搜罗了大量的中、西文报刊、档案资料和著述，对近代上海的卖淫和妓女现象作了全面系统的探讨。他从剖析高级妓女的活动空间和生存状况入手，对近代上海的卖淫市场、卖淫场所及由此产生的性经济进行了深入的考察，再现了旧上海妓女风光而悲惨的卖笑人生以及这种灯红酒绿、纸醉金迷生活背后的种种罪恶勾当。最后，本书还对历届上海政府管制妓女的失败及当时民间团体对妓女的救助作了详细的分析和阐述。