China and Ashkenazic Jewry : transcultural encounters / edited by Kathryn Hellerstein and Song Lihong.

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"In 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 translat...

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Other Authors: Hellerstein, Kathryn (Editor)
Song, Lihong (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]
Subjects:
Ashkenazim > China > History.
Jews > China > History.
Ashkenazim > China > Social life and customs.
Jews > Civilization > Chinese influences.
Intercultural communication > China.
China > Relations.
China > Civilization > Foreign influences.
Chine > Civilisation > Influence étrangère.
Ashkenazim > Social life and customs.
Civilization > Foreign influences.
Intercultural communication.
International relations.
China.
Physical Description:xi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.