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100 1  Kaufman, Jonathan,|eauthor. 
245 14 The last kings of Shanghai :|bthe rival Jewish dynasties 
       that helped create modern China /|cJonathan Kaufman. 
246 30 Rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China 
264  1 [New York] :|bViking,|c[2020] 
300    xxxi, 350 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and 
       index. 
520    "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 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, Charlie Chaplin entertained his wife-to-be, and the
       American socialite Wallis Simpson reportedly posed for 
       dirty photographs. A few miles away, Mao and the nascent 
       communist party have been plotting revolution before being
       forced to flee the city. By the 1930's, 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 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. In The Last Kings of Shanghai,
       Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable story 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. He also 
       tells the triumphant story of how they joined to rescue 
       and protect eighteen thousand Jewish refugees fleeing 
       Nazism."--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Sassoon, David,|d1792-1864|xFamily. 
600 10 Kadoorie, Elly,|d1865-1944|xFamily. 
600 30 Sassoon family. 
600 30 Kadoorie family. 
650  0 Jews|zChina|zShanghai|xHistory. 
650  0 Jews|zChina|zShanghai|xSocial life and customs. 
650  0 Jewish businesspeople|zChina|zShanghai|vBiography. 
651  0 Shanghai (China)|xEthnic relations. 
651  0 Shanghai (China)|vBiography.