Author: Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "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.
The Last Kings of Shanghai
Author: Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "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.
Providing for Maintenance of Merchant Marine Academy
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Considers legislation granting Federal status to the Merchant Marine Academy in NY.
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Considers legislation granting Federal status to the Merchant Marine Academy in NY.
MotorBoating
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Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Merchant Marine Training and Education
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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MotorBoating
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Independent Offices Appropriations, 1953, Hearings Before ... 82-1, on H.R. 7072
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 1624
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Languages : en
Pages : 1624
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Campus
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Category : Naval education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Naval education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 2592
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Languages : en
Pages : 2592
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