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Strangers on the Praia: : A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao - Paul French

Strangers on the Praia:

A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

By: Paul French

Paperback | 15 January 2021

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Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao - "the Casablanca of the Orient". The delicately balanced neutral enclave became their wartime home, amid Nazi and Japanese spies, escaped Allied prisoners from Hong Kong, and displaced Chinese. Strangers on the Praia relates the story of one young woman's struggle for freedom that would ultimately prove an act of brave resistance.
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Paul French's new book, Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao, tells the little-known history of Jewish refugees in Shanghai that fled to the neutral Portuguese enclave. Featuring French's trademark research, and based on an amalgam of actual people, it might be characterized as "might have happened" history, albeit incomplete, as French admits. Yet so much in the book does seem complete, giving the reader a vivid idea of how some Jewish refugees left the relative safety of Shanghai for Macau in order to find better living conditions.--Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of Good Chinese Wife "Asian Review Of Books "

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