The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai - Hardcover

by Marcia R. Ristaino (Author)

The Jacquinot Zone, in Shanghai, is the first example in history of a successful safe zone that provided protection and security to half a million Chinese refugees living in a battle zone during wartime.

Author Biography

Marcia R. Ristaino is a Research Associate at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, consultant to the U.S./China Policy Foundation, and formerly a Senior China Specialist at the Library of Congress. She is the author of China's Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discount (1989) and Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai (Stanford, 2001).