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In 1936, classical pianist Thomas Greene is recruited to Shanghai to lead a jazz orchestra of fellow African-American expats. From being smooth broke in segregated Baltimore to residing in a mansion with servants of his own, he becomes the toast of the city obsessed with music, money, pleasure, and ability, even while it ignores the growing winds of conflict.Music Yuhua is refined and informed, and has been bonded since years eighteen to Shanghai's most powerful crime supervisor in payment on her behalf father's gambling debt. Outwardly submissive, she melts away with rage and dangers her life spying on her grasp for the Communist Get together.Only once Shanghai is shattered by the Japanese invasion do Music and Thomas find their way to one another. Though their union is forbidden, neither can back off from it in the turbulent years of occupation and resistance that follow. Torn between music and success, freedom and determination, love and world conflict, they are borne with an irresistible riff of melody and improvisation to Nighttime in Shanghai's last, impossible choice.In such a stunningly researched book, Nicole Mones not only instructs the forgotten tale of black music artists in the Chinese language jazz years, but also weaves in a startling true story of Holocaust heroism little-known in the West.
