Jonathan Kaufman is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, editor and author. He is currently Executive Editor for Company News at Bloomberg News, overseeing more than 300 reporters and editors globally who cover technology, energy, autos, deals, industrials, consumer products, education, science and health. Projects he has overseen at Bloomberg have won numerous awards including finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, several George Polk Awards, an Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award and Education Writers Association Grand Prize. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Kaufman was deputy Page One editor at the Wall Street Journal and also served as the Wall Street Journal's China Bureau Chief, based in Beijing. He also served as Berlin Bureau Chief of the Boston Globe. As a reporter, Kaufman covered race and class issues in the workplace and on college campuses and wrote about race and women's issues in the extraordinary 2008 presidential campaign. Kaufman has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of two well-reviewed books, A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe and Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America, which won the National Jewish Book Award.
What's even less likely than a clan of displaced Baghdadi Jews who
find themselves in twentieth-century Shanghai and change it
forever? Try two clans of displaced Baghdadi Jews. This is the tale
that Jonathan Kaufman tells in The Last Kings of Shanghai, his
remarkable history of the Sassoon and Kadoorie families. Read it
and the Bund will never look the same
*Peter Hessler, author of Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in
China*
Jonathan Kaufman brings to life the extraordinary forgotten history
of two Jewish families who helped transform China into a global
economic powerhouse. A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of
Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family
intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from
colonialism to communism to globalized capitalism
*Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth
College*
An illuminating book
*The Economist*
Complementing histories of modern China that focus on political
developments, Kaufman uses a rich mix of materials including memoir
and private correspondence to bring us the people who greased the
wheels of change . . . [the Sassoons and Kadoories'] part in the
development of modern China offers drama enough to make them worthy
of our attention. Kaufman ensures that they gain and retain it,
with a well-paced narrative and plenty of helpful historical
context
*Telegraph*
This heady era is brought vividly to life in Jonathan Kaufman's
Kings of Shanghai - a multigenerational epic of the Sassoon and
Kadoorie dynasties, which rightly takes business out of the shadows
and puts it at the heart of modern China's history. The book is
excellent too on China's tumultuous history - the pernicious
colonial influence, the collapse of Imperial China, and the
Communist Revolution, which swept away both families' Shanghai
holdings. Victor Sassoon never recovered but the Kadoories had
hedged their bets and invested early enough in Hong Kong to start
again. Kaufman deserves praise for highlighting a story that ought
to be better known
*Financial Times*
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