Thanks for sharing!
Its actually a very interesting book, available for pirating here:
#piratelife #politics #opium #drugs #china #judaism
Kaufman may have to join Israel Shahak and Benjamin Ginsberg among my favourite Jewish historians!
"By the 1930s, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other dynasty--the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than 175 years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and losing nearly everything as the Communists swept into power."