Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order : The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 is a 2003 non-fiction book by Parks Coble, published by University of California Press.
[5] Eric Jones, of Melbourne Business School and the University of Reading, stated that Shanghainese businesspersons were loath to leave explicit written records that could have them targeted by the Japanese and/or by the Kuomintang, which would suspect them of allying with the other side.
[6] According to Rana Mitter of the University of Oxford, scholars in the West were, in prior eras, unable to obtain several of the sourcing documents.
[7] Morris L. Bian of Auburn University praised the "meticulous research" and described the book as "definitive".
[4] Samuel C. Chu of Ohio State University praised how the book's author used "painstaking care" to gather the data for analysis.