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The last kings of Shanghai : the rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China /

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 Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaufman, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
Subjects:
Sassoon, David, > 1792-1864 > Family.
Sassoon family.
Kadoorie, Elly, > 1865-1944 > Family.
Kadoorie family.
Jews > China > Shanghai > History.
Jews > China > Shanghai > Social life and customs.
Shanghai (China) > Ethnic relations.
Shanghai (China) > Biography.
Jewish businesspeople > China > Shanghai > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The Patriarch
  • Empire of the Sons-and Opium
  • Laura and Elly
  • Shanghai Rising
  • The Impresario
  • "Me Voila Therefore Walking a Tightrope"
  • War
  • "I Gave Up India and China Gave Me Up"
  • The Reckoning
  • The Last Taipan
  • Back on the Bund.