A compilation of biographical accounts from Shanghai's Baghdadi Jewish society offers insights into a remarkable community that lived through the crossroads of China's 20th-century history. Using previously unseen archival material, Meyer documents the rise and fall of larger-than-life personalities who witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Occupation of Shanghai and the Communists' rise to power. Photographs illustrate the lives of these people and the magnificent, cosmopolitan city they called home.
Irene Eber Knihy
Wilhelm frequently wrote & lectured on the Book of Changes, supplying guidelines to its ideas & ways of thinking. Collected here are four lectures he gave between 1926 & 1929. The lectures are significant not only for what they reveal about Chinese tradition & culture, but also for their reflections of the scholarly & cultural milieu prevalent in Germany during that time.