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       Date: July 3, 2020, 1:33 am
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       Desc : 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 journalistShanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel,
       located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most
       glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire
       playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a
       who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward has written a draft
       of Private Lives in his suite and Charlie Chaplin has
       entertained his wife-to-be. And a few miles away, Mao and the
       nascent Communist Party have been plotting revolution.By the
       1930s, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a
       century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other
       dynasty--the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both
       originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and
       politics for more than 175 years, profiting from the Opium Wars;
       surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and
       losing nearly everything as the Communists swept into power. In
       The Last Kings of Shanghai,  Jonathan Kaufman tells the
       remarkable history of how these families participated in an
       economic boom that opened China to the world, but remained blind
       to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil at
       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.The
       book lays bare the moral compromises of the Kadoories and the
       Sassoons--and their exceptional foresight, success, and
       generosity. At the height of World War II, they joined together
       to rescue and protect eighteen thousand Jewish refugees fleeing
       Nazism. Though their stay in China started out as a business
       opportunity, the country became a home they were reluctant to
       leave, even on the eve of revolution. The lavish buildings they
       built and the booming businesses they nurtured continue to
       define Shanghai and Hong Kong to this day. As the United States
       confronts China's rise, and China grapples with the pressures of
       breakneck modernization and global power, the long-hidden
       odysseys of the Sassoons and the Kadoories hold a key to
       understanding the present moment.
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