KINGS OF SHANGHAI (PB)

An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties – the Sassoons and the Kadoories – who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era. These two Jewish families, both originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred and seventy-five years. In Kings of Shanghai, 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.