Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II

Gao, Bei

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199840903 ISBN 13: 9780199840908

Verlag: OUP USA, 2013

Book by Gao Bei

Críticas:

Gao Bei paints a fascinatingly intricate picture of the political forces and fluxes which ultimately contributed to the arrival of these Jewish refugees in Shanghai. ... The author has a keen eye for detail and also provides the reader with an elaborate overview of various Chinese and Japanese personalities who directly and indirectly facilitated the entry of these Jewish refugees into Shanghai. (Felicia Yep, Journal of JRAS)

Gao offers a valuable contribution to the field in for the first time presenting a synopsis of both the Chinese and Japanese policies towards Jewish refugees (Thoralf Klein, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London)

Reseña del editor:

Shanghai Sanctuary assesses the plight of the European Jewish refugees who fled to Japanese-occupied China during World War II. This book is the first major study to examine the Nationalist government's policy towards the Jewish refugee issue and the most thorough and subtle analysis of Japanese diplomacy concerning this matter. Gao demonstrates that the story of the wartime Shanghai Jews is not merely a sidebar to the history of modern China or modern Japan. She illuminates how the "Jewish issue" complicated the relationships among China, Japan, Germany, and the United States before and during World War II. Her groundbreaking research provides an important contribution to international history and the history of the Holocaust.

Chinese Nationalist government and the Japanese occupation authorities thought very carefully about the Shanghai Jews and how they could be used to win international financial and political support in their war against one another. The Holocaust had complicated repercussions extending far beyond Europe to East Asia, and Gao shows many of them in this tightly argued book. Her fluency in both Chinese and Japanese has permitted her to exploit archival sources no Western scholar has been able to fully use before. Gao brings the politics and personalities that led to the admittance of Jews to Shanghai during World War II together into a rich and revealing story.