Demon Shanghai Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Prologue - The Two Shanghais -- Chapter 1 - Samurai in Shanghai -- The Front Lines of Capitalism: Samurai Experience in the "West" -- The Shock Experienced by Takasugi Shinsaku -- Chapter 2 - Birth of an East Asian Information Network -- Shifts in the "Informationally Advanced Nations" -- Toward an East Asian Hub -- Chapter 3 - Shanghai and the Opening of Japan -- The London Missionary Society Press, Site for the Dispatch of Information -- The "West" as Conveyed by Chinese Translations of Western Works -- Two "Shanghai Men" Who Accelerated the Opening of Japan -- Chapter 4 - Meiji Men Stirred by Romance -- Demon Capital Born of Modernity -- Teahouses, Brothels, Opium Dens -- Identity Unnerved: The Shanghai Experience of Japanese in the Meiji Era -- Chapter 5 Taishō Writers Who Indulged in the Demon Capital -- Tanizaki and Akutagawa: Tourism and the Taishō Writer -- Cultural Border-Crossers, from Inoue Kōbai to Muramatsu Shōfū -- Chapter 6 - The Modern City and the Shōwa Period -- Skyscrapers and the Modern Girl -- Modernism Extinguished -- Epilogue - Japan as Seen from Shanghai -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Translator -- Demon Shanghai Back Cover.