Shanghai’s Hidden Blade: Eight Hundred Spy Chapters Shatter the Nation

In the thirty-first year of the Republic, Shanghai lay in the depths of a bitter winter, stripped of every trace of the warmth once associated with the old towns of Jiangnan. Since the Battle of Shanghai ended and the entire city fell, the foreign concessions had been smothered beneath a heavy pall of gloom. Japanese patrols armed to the teeth were everywhere, their bayonets glinting coldly against the shuttered shops lining the streets. Wang Jingwei regime agents prowled about, stopping and searching passersby at will. The whole city was on edge, and even the slightest stir set people trembling. Every inch of the occupied territory was steeped in oppression and fear. The common people, crushed beneath the double burden of Japanese invaders and Chinese collaborators, endured one miserable day after another.