The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Build Modern China
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Build Modern China
29.99 €
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Kaufman was one of the first Western journalists allowed into China in the 1970s. Kaufman uncovers the history that official Communist China has tried to erase: how the two richest Jewish families, the Sassoon and Kaduri, ran Shanghai's economy and politics for more than 175 years, from the Opium Wars to the rise to power of Mao and the Communist Party.
The Sassoon and Kaduri dynasties triggered an economic boom and opened China to the world, their money turned Shanghai into a cosmopolitan metropolis, built the world's most luxurious hotels (in which lived, for example, Charlie Chaplin, the scandalous wife of the abdicated Edward VIII Wallis Simpson, They also helped Jewish refugees find shelter in Shanghai during the Holocaust, but they were deaf and blind to the deep inequalities in the country and the political turmoil on their palaces' doorsteps, and they lost everything.
The Sassoon and Kaduri dynasties triggered an economic boom and opened China to the world, their money turned Shanghai into a cosmopolitan metropolis, built the world's most luxurious hotels (in which lived, for example, Charlie Chaplin, the scandalous wife of the abdicated Edward VIII Wallis Simpson, They also helped Jewish refugees find shelter in Shanghai during the Holocaust, but they were deaf and blind to the deep inequalities in the country and the political turmoil on their palaces' doorsteps, and they lost everything.
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