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Author : Fred Marcus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881896296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Survival in Shanghai written by Fred Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irene Eber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110268183
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe written by Irene Eber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world.
Author : Ernest G. Heppner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272811
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Shanghai Refuge written by Ernest G. Heppner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unlikely refuge of Shanghai, the only city in the world that did not require a visa, was buffeted by the struggle between European imperialism, Japanese aggression, and Chinese nationalism. Ernest G. Heppner's compelling testimony is a brilliant account of this little-known haven. Although Heppner was a member of a privileged middle-class Jewish family, he suffered from the constant anti-Semitic undercurrent in his surroundings. The devastation of "Crystal Night" in November 1938, however, introduced a new level of Nazi horror and ended his comfortable world overnight. Heppner and his mother used the family's resources to escape to Shanghai. Heppner was taken aback by experiences on the ocean liner that transported the refugees to Shanghai: he was embarrassed and confounded when Egyptian Jews offered worn clothing to the Jewish passengers, he resented the edicts against Jewish passengers disembarking in any ports on the way, and he was unprepared for the poverty and cultural dislocation of the great city of Shanghai. Nevertheless, Heppner was self-reliant, energetic, and clever, and his story of finding niches for his skills that enabled him to survive in a precarious fashion is a tribute to human endurance. In 1945, after the liberation of China, Heppner found a responsible position with the American forces there. He and his wife, whom he had met and married in the ghetto, arrived in the United States in 1947 with only eleven dollars but boundless hope and energy. Heppner's account of the Shanghai ghetto is as vivid to him now as it was then. His admiration for his new country and his later success in business do not, however, obscure for him the shameful failure of the Allies to furnish a refuge for Jews before, during, and after the war.
Author : Sigmund Tobias
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252024535
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Strange Haven written by Sigmund Tobias and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, part of the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, tells of his experiences growing up in the ghetto under Japanese occupation.
Author : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224439
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Last Kings of Shanghai written by Jonathan Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Chen Danyan
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shanghai Princess written by Chen Danyan and published by Reader's Digest Association. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the three decades of depredation and loss experienced by this "princess" of Shanghai
Author : Helen Zia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 034552232X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Last Boat Out of Shanghai written by Helen Zia and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution--a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have opened the story to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves the story of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S. Young Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father's dark wartime legacy, must choose between escaping Hong Kong or navigating the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome young exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation in order to continue his studies in the U.S. while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America"--
Author : Larry Herzberg
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611725526
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book China Survival Guide written by Larry Herzberg and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of the best-selling travel guide to China is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime. Compact, affordable, reliable, a delight to read—these qualities are what has made China Survival Guide so popular with first-time and seasoned China travelers. This third edition has a brand new section on train travel, plus updates and fresh recommendations. Includes practical strategies for lodging, walking, haggling, medical and bathroom emergencies, etiquette, crowds, and learning the twin arts of patience and persistence.
Author : Cheng Nien
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802145167
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Life and Death in Shanghai written by Cheng Nien and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Author : Evelyn Pike Rubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628901139
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Ghetto Shanghai written by Evelyn Pike Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ira C. Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Shanghai Sanctuary written by Ira C. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Reynders Ristaino
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804750233
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Port of Last Resort written by Marcia Reynders Ristaino and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish, the other Slavic, who found refuge in Shanghai during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107071569
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Ecology of War in China written by Micah S. Muscolino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.
Author : Angin Eagan
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814346802
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book CultureShock! China written by Angin Eagan and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Strobin
Publisher : Barricade Legends
ISBN 13 : 9781569805046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book An Uncommon Journey written by Deborah Strobin and published by Barricade Legends. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by a brother and sister in which they recount how their Jewish family fled Nazi Austria in 1939, joining other Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, before escaping to the United States.
Author : Lois Ruby
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504013654
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Shanghai Shadows written by Lois Ruby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse’s childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady. But when Hitler annexes their country, the family flees, boarding a packed freighter and sailing around the world in search of a safe harbor. The United States refuses to take them, so they proceed to China and make a new home in steamy, mysterious Shanghai. Their lodgings are cramped, money is tight, and Ilse’s father cannot find work—but Ilse is enchanted by the city’s international flavor. In Shanghai’s shadows she finds the adventure of a lifetime. When the Japanese occupy the city, Ilse and her brother begin working in an underground resistance cell. Each day, the city grows more dangerous, and Ilse must lie, cheat, and steal in order for her family to eat. She is a long way from Austria, but she will do whatever it takes to survive.
Author : Edie Shafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615918013
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Shanghai Deliverance written by Edie Shafer and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
