TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaufman,Jonathan
TI  - The last kings of Shanghai: the rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China 
SN  - 9780735224438
PY  - 2021///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Sassoon, David,
KW  - Sassoon family.
KW  - Kadoorie, Elly,
KW  - Kadoorie family.
KW  - Jews
KW  - China
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - History
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Jewish businesspeople
KW  - Biography
KW  - Shanghai (China)
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The epic story of two rival dynasties that flourished in Shanghai and Hong kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era. The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than 175 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"--Back cover
ER  -