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"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.
"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.
BUSINESS IN CHINA: The news is dominated by global companies making compromises to do business in China. The Kadoories and the Sassoons navigated this business world for decades, and the choices they were forced to make are still relevant today.
WWII JEWISH REFUGEE NARRATIVE: In the most nail-biting chapter, the two families join forces to save 18,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780735224438 |
| ISBN-10: | 0735224439 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kaufman, Jonathan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books |
| Abbildungen: | 13 B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT; 1 B&W MAP |
| Maße: | 212 x 136 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jonathan Kaufman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.06.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,308 kg |
BUSINESS IN CHINA: The news is dominated by global companies making compromises to do business in China. The Kadoories and the Sassoons navigated this business world for decades, and the choices they were forced to make are still relevant today.
WWII JEWISH REFUGEE NARRATIVE: In the most nail-biting chapter, the two families join forces to save 18,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780735224438 |
| ISBN-10: | 0735224439 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kaufman, Jonathan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books |
| Abbildungen: | 13 B&W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT; 1 B&W MAP |
| Maße: | 212 x 136 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jonathan Kaufman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.06.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,308 kg |
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