The Last Kings of Shanghai

Name: The Last Kings of Shanghai
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Books / Penguin Books
SKU: 9780735224438-PRUSDTR-US
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The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

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English • Age Adult - Adult

384 pages • 5.5 x 8.4 x 0.81 in

Approx. weight: 0.69 lb

Publication date: 01 Jun,2021

Barcode: 9780735224438 • Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Books / Penguin Books

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By: Jonathan Kaufman

"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe

"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books

An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.