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Night In Shanghai (2014)

by Nicole Mones(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547516177 (ISBN13: 9780547516172)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: This is the third of her books I have read and I believe she improves with each one. I read this as I traveled through China, including Shanghai, where I have been before. She made the era really come alive and, while I knew of the Japanese occupation and the Jewish Ghetto, the role of American musicians, as well as the gangs and the fighting between the nationalists and the communists, was relatively unknown to me. Thus, I found it not only a very fine read, with well-developed and complex characters, I feel I learned something.
review 2: Excellent and captivating historical novel about Shanghai and its' international colonies primarily, although China as well, pre and during WW2, from the black jazz musicians recruited from the US, through to the tension b... moreetween the Nationalist (Chiang Kai-shek)and the Communist party, and the invasion in the north by Japan in the early to mid 1930's, to the impact of Germany, WW 2 and the policies regarding Jews. The fortunate few were able to escape via Austria and the Chinese consul there, with ~25,000 living in Shanghai. That part of the story crosses over with Daniel Kalla's recent books "The Far Side of the Sky" and "Rising Sun, Falling Shadow". The bigger story involves also the role of gangs and triads, as well as romance and pain. less

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