In Republican-Era Shanghai, Chen Tianbao Bravely Faces the City

• Chen Tianbao

Identity: An orphan from the slums, he grew up begging and pilfering. He later joined the Green Gang as a low-level thug, then, by a twist of fate, became an informant for the foreign settlement police. At the same time, he was courted by a warlord's aide and became sworn brothers with a young man from a family of tomb raiders. He moves among one beautiful woman after another.