China Chat: Jonathan Kaufman

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, 7:00-8:00pm PDT
WHERE: Zoom Webinar

You are invited to join Jonathan Kaufman, in a Zoom webinar where he’ll talk about his fascinating new book: The Last Kings of Shanghai, an epic, multi-generational story of two rival Jewish dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era. Mr. Kaufman will speak, and then answer your questions in a Q&A. His book is available now at — Amazon.

About the Speaker:

Jonathan Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has written and reported on China for thirty years for The Boston Globe, where he covered the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square; The Wall Street Journal, where he served as China bureau chief from 2002 to 2005; and Bloomberg News. He is the author of 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, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He is director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.