{"product_id":"the-last-kings-of-shanghai-the-rival-jewish-dynasties-that-helped-create-modern-china-paperback","title":"The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Kaufman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"\u003ci\u003e--LA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Kaufman\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has written and reported on China for thirty years for \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, where he covered the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square; \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, where he served as China bureau chief from 2002 to 2005; and \u003ci\u003eBloomberg News\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBroken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He is director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964680831277,"sku":"9780735224438","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-last-kings-of-shanghai-the-rival-jewish-dynasties-that-helped-create-modern-china-paperback-1988519.webp?v=1775476748","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-last-kings-of-shanghai-the-rival-jewish-dynasties-that-helped-create-modern-china-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}