ZHONGPING CHENModern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2011. Pp. xxi, 289. Cloth $55.00, e-book $55.00

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-178
Author(s):  
K. M. Bun
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Sociopolitical Change ◽  
Chambers Of Commerce ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Marcia Reynders Ristaino. Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxxi, 369 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-190
Author(s):  
Bernard Wasserstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Refugees

This book compares two uneasily related exile communities in early twentieth-century Shanghai: the Russians and the Jews. Although traders, including some Jews, had drifted down from Siberia from the mid-nineteenth century, the Russians in Shanghai, for a time the city's largest foreign community, were mainly remnants of Admiral Kolchak's “White” army who fled Vladivostok in 1922–23, with a rag-tag group of camp followers, aboard what remained of the former imperial fleet. Most settled in the French Concession district and worked as small shopkeepers. The Jewish refugees from Germany and Central Europe who followed in the period 1938–41 had little in common with the Russians, some of whom regarded the Jews as commercial rivals, and many of whom were deeply infected by the traditional anti-Semitism of the Russian extreme right.

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