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DESCRIPTION:“The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties that 
 Helped Create Modern China” by Jonathan Kaufman\n\nThe Sassoons and the 
 Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hu
 ndred seventy-five years\, profiting from the Opium Wars\; surviving Japan
 ese occupation\; courting Chiang Kai-shek\; and nearly losing everything a
 s the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable h
 istory 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.\n\nBook Club events are avai
 lable both in person at the Association of Retired Faculty office (300 Ham
 mond Pond Parkway\, Newton)\, and via Zoom (contact Laurel Eisenhauer at l
 aurel.eisenhauser@bc.edu for details).
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