Cafe Jause: a Story of Viennese Shanghai

Shanghai, 1936. On the eve of World War II, the Jewish, Chinese and Japanese customers of a famous Viennese café on Zhoushan Road get together for an international project: to bake the ‘king of the cakes’, the legendary German baumkuchen. Fully illustrated with modern and vintage photography. This edition includes a Chinese excerpt translated by the author and performed to Chinese audiences.