Chinese Perceptions Of The Jews And Judaism

Author : Zhou Xun,Xun Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136835162

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Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism by Zhou Xun,Xun Zhou Pdf

While prejudice against Jews is a real and ongoing category in Western culture, little attention has been paid to the myths of the Jews' and their impact in countries outside the West. This work draws on a wide variety of source materials from the past two centuries to examine the images of the Jews' as constructed in China. However, the interest here does not lie in the determination of the boundary between the real and fictional aspects of these images. Rather, it lies in the implications associated with the Jew' as an other', which remains a distant mirror in the construction of the self' amongst various social groups in modern China. Although it has been noted by a few scholars that the use of the Jews' as a category was important to many thinkers of modern China in the construction of their nationalistic and socio- political ideologies, this is the first systematic study in the field to be published. This book is also more than a historical book on China in that it opens a new arena for modern Jewish studies from a unique angle.

Author : Peter Kupfer
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jews
ISBN : 3631575335

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Youtai - Presence and Perception of Jews and Judaism in China by Peter Kupfer Pdf

This volume summarizes the results of a research project organized at Mainz University in Germersheim, Germany. It focused on the Jewish community in Kaifeng in China (12th to 19th century). In recent years, increasing research has been done about the history and culture of the Jews in China, and in the future, more academic interest in all questions connected with it can be expected. Main topics are the perception of Chinese Judaism in European history as well as in Chinese society itself, the self-image of the descendants in Kaifeng and their present status in China, and how China deals with foreign ethnics and religions as part of its own history and identity. These topics were discussed from various interdisciplinary points of view. The authors from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Great Britain, France, and Germany are prominent sino-judaists who present their latest results of research in the light of new facts and approaches.

Author : Irene Eber
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271085876

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Jews in China by Irene Eber Pdf

Irene Eber was one of the foremost authorities on Jews in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—a field that, in contrast to the study of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Americas, has been critically neglected. This volume gathers fourteen of Eber’s most salient articles and essays on the exchanges between Jewish and Chinese cultures, making available to students, scholars, and general readers a representative sample of the range and depth of her important work in the field of Jews in China. Jews in China delineates the centuries-long, reciprocal dialogue between Jews, Jewish culture, and China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation. The first section of the book sets forth a sweeping overview of the history of Jews in China, beginning in the twelfth century and concluding with a detailed assessment of the two crucial years leading up to the Second World War. The second section examines the translation of Chinese classics into Hebrew and the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Chinese. The third and final section turns to modern literature, bringing together eight essays that underscore the cultural reciprocity that takes place through acts of translation. The centuries-long relationship between Judaism and China is often overlooked in the light of the extensive discourse surrounding European and American Judaism. With this volume, Eber reminds us that we have much to learn from the intersections between Jewish identity and Chinese culture.

Author : Jonathan Goldstein,Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0765601036

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The Jews of China: Historical and comparative perspectives by Jonathan Goldstein,Frank Joseph Shulman Pdf

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949.

Author : Roman Malek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351566292

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From Kaifeng to Shanghai by Roman Malek Pdf

The collection presents the proceedings of the international colloquium held in Sankt Augustin in 1997 and additional materials. The articles are written in English, German or Chinese (with English abstracts). The volume includes a general index with glossary.

Author : Salomon Wald
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 9652293474

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China and the Jewish People by Salomon Wald Pdf

The Jewish people and world Jewish leadership are facing critical dilemmas, opportunities and challenges. These create a need for systematic thinking to examine the range of decisions that may affect the standing of world Jewry in the decades to come. The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) was established as an independent think tank whose mission is to contribute to the continuity of the Jewish people and Judaism, and their thriving future. China and the Jewish People' is the first document in a series of strategy papers dedicated to improving the standing of the Jewish people in emerging superpowers without biblical tradition.China and Jewish People: Old Civilizations in a New Era by Dr. Shalom Salomon Wald, is a crucial book that addresses the Jewish people and their issues with China.

Author : M. Avrum Ehrlich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135214425

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Jews and Judaism in Modern China by M. Avrum Ehrlich Pdf

Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation between scholars, activists and politicians. Through evaluation of the respective talents, qualities and social assets that are fused and borrowed in the civilizational exchange, we gain an insight into the social processes underpinning two contrasting and long surviving civilizations. Identifying and analysing some of the emerging current issues, this book suggests Jewish-Chinese relations may become a growing discipline of import to the study of religion and comparative identity, and looks at how the significant contrasts in Jewish and Chinese national constructs may serve them well in the quest for a meaningful discourse. Chapters explore identity, integrity of the family unit; minority status; religious freedom; ethics and morality; tradition versus modernity; the environment, and other areas which are undergoing profound transformation. Identifying the intellectual and practical nexus and bifurcation between the two cultures, worldviews and identities, this work is indispensable for students of Chinese studies, sociology, religion and the Jewish diaspora, and provides useful reading for Western tourists to China.

Author : Yaʼacov Liberman
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : 9652291714

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My China by Yaʼacov Liberman Pdf

To escape anti-Semitism in revolutionary Russia, Jews fled to any safe haven they could find, including the remote Chinese cities of Harbin, Shanghai and Tientsin. Like Israel's early pioneers, China s Jews created their own schools, hospitals and culture.

Author : M. Avrum Ehrlich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134105533

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The Jewish-Chinese Nexus by M. Avrum Ehrlich Pdf

This book is concerned with the areas where Jews and Chinese, Judaism and Chinese religions and ideologies are converging or inter relate to each other. It includes chapters on Confuciansim, the Kaifeng Jewish Descendants, business and Chinese/Israeli relations.

Author : Anson H. Laytner,Jordan Paper
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498550277

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The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng by Anson H. Laytner,Jordan Paper Pdf

This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and historical development of the Kaifeng community, as well as the unique cultural synthesis it engendered. Part II explores the contemporary nature of this Chinese Jewish community, particularly examining the community’s relationship to Jewish organizations outside of China, the impact of Western Jewish contact, and the tenuous nature of Jewish identity in Kaifeng.

Author : James Finn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Jews
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019896166

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The Jews in China by James Finn Pdf

"A collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation"--

Author : Xin Xu
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0881257915

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The Jews of Kaifeng, China by Xin Xu Pdf

Author : Donald Leslie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004645295

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Survival of the Chinese Jews: The Jewish Community of Kaifeng by Donald Leslie Pdf

Author : Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025164737

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The Jews of China by Frank Joseph Shulman Pdf

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949.

Author : Jonathan Goldstein,Benjamin I. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317456056

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The Jews of China: v. 1: Historical and Comparative Perspectives by Jonathan Goldstein,Benjamin I. Schwartz Pdf

This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949.