Vroman’s Bookstore: Joseph Kanon discusses Shanghai
Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United StatesAfter the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch--if you were lucky enough to afford […]