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Informationen zum Autor Marcia Reynders Ristaino is Senior Chinese Acquisitions Specialist at the Library of Congress. She is the author of "China's Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discontent, 1927 and 1928." Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

"This masterful work makes a significant contribution to three disparate fields of study: diaspora studies, history of refugees in the twentieth century, and Jewish studies. No other scholar has brought so many different parts of wartime Shanghai within the purview of one work."

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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.

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