Jews in China : a history of struggle / Nicholas Zhang.
Nicholas Zhang author
BookIn the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.-- Publisher's description.
Title |
China and Ashkenazic jewry : transcultural encounters / edited by Kathryn Hellerstein, Lihong Song. |
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Contributors |
Song, Lihong (editor) Hellerstein, Kathryn (editor) |
Publisher |
Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg |
Creation Date |
[2022] |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Content |
Introduction / Kathryn Hellerstein -- I. The Bible in China. 1. From rags to riches: Joseph and his family / Irene Eber 2. Why is having no posterity the worst unfilial thing? a comparison of Mencius 4A:26 and Genesis 38 / Fu Xiaowei and Wang Yi 3. The impact of ancient Israelite prophets on modern Chinese intellectuals / Cao Jian 4. Reading the Song of Songs in Jewish and Chinese tradition / Zhong Zhiqing 5. The transcultural characteristics of the Chinese Bible translated by S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831-1906): A case study of the Song of Songs / Liu Yan -- II. Jews in modern China. 6. Jewish communities and modern China: Encounters of modern civilizations / Xu Xin 7. When the muscular Jews came to the Far East: Jewish sports and physical culture in modern China, 1912-1949 / Ai Rengui 8. Tracking the exact number of Jewish refugees in Shanghai / Wang Jian 9. The global reach of Shanghai's Baghdadi Jews / Maisie Meyer 10. Jewish refugee artists in Shanghai: Visual legacies of traumatic moments and cultural encounters / Nancy Berliner 11. Drama in wartime Shanghai / Yang Meng 12. The Mir Yeshiva and its Shanghai sojourn / Marc B. Shapiro 13. Chabad outreach on the Jewish frontier: The case of China / Samuel Heilman -- III. Jews and Chinese. 14. Yiddish translations of Chinese poetry and theater in 1920s New York / Kathryn Hellerstein 15. Enemy or friend: The image of China in Yiddish newspapers during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) / Bao Anruo 16. To speak or not to speak: Hanoch Levin's suitcase packers and Cao Yu's Peking man in light of cross-textual dialogue / Zhang Ping 17. Teaching American Jewish literature to Chinese college students: Anzia Yezierska's "Children of Loneliness" as a case study / Li Dong 18. Chinese and Ashkenazic encounters in the American immigration regime: Max J. Kohler, immigration legal practice, and the Chinese Exclusion Act / Rebecca Kobrin 19. A homeless stranger everywhere: The shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli sinologist / Song Lihong. |
Extent |
359 pages : illustrations (black and white) 23 cm |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997008353189405171 |
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