Bernard Wasserstein
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1930s Shanghai was notoriously populated by characters of dubious political and moral allegiances. Bernard Wasserstein shows how the Japanese used their contacts among the city’s low-life to assist in their invasion and occupation. Published August 31 1998
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Missionary, failed MP, counter-revolutionary, Buddhist abbot – an extraordinary character is tracked through his secret lives by Bernard Wasserstein across the ideological and international battleground of the early twentieth century.
Published March 31 1988
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