Please join Yale Club of Hong Kong, Yale Club of Beijing, Yale Center Beijing, and the Yale Club of India for a webinar with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jonathan Kaufman ’78 on his new book, "The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China."
This new book is an epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as 20th century China surged into the modern era. See a review of the book here.
Registration
The event is free of charge but registration is required. The specific zoom link will be sent to your email before the event. To register, please contact Rawen Huang.
About the author
Jonathan Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has written and reported on China for thirty years for The Boston Globe; 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. He received his BA in English from Yale where he attended Silliman College.
Previously, Kaufman was deputy Page One editor at The Wall Street Journal and also served as the Wall Street Journal's China Bureau Chief, based in Beijing. At Bloomberg News, he oversaw more than 300 reporters and editors worldwide covering business, health, science, education, and international news. Under his leadership, Kaufman’s team at Bloomberg won numerous awards including a 2015 Pulitzer Prize, several George Polk Awards, the Overseas Press Club Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, the Osborn Elliott Prize of the Asia Society, and the Education Writers Association Grand Prize.
At the Boston Globe, Kaufman won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team examining racism and job discrimination in Boston. He also served as Berlin Bureau Chief of The Boston Globe.
Kaufman is the author of two well-reviewed books, "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" which won the National Jewish Book Award. He has twice served as a member of the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.
If you would like to purchase The Last Kings of Shanghai, you can order the U.S. edition, available here.
