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.
“All of the contributions are of high quality. The interface of these two ancient, distinctive, and diverse peoples offers an opportunity for insights on identity, assimilation and acculturation, the place of minorities and foreigners in China, and Chinese attitudes toward others, and this volume is a wonderful contribution to our knowledge of both Chinese and Jewish history.”
Robert Entenmann in H-Asia
ROMAN MALEK, Intercultural encounters: From Kaifeng ... to Shanghai. Jews in China. An Introduction
From Kaifeng ... :
HERBERT FRANKE: Der Weg nach Osten. Jüdische Niederlassungen im Alten China (The Way Eastward. Jewish Settlements in Old China)
DONALD DANIEL LESLIE: Integration, Assimilation, and Survival of Minorities in China: The Case of Kaifeng Jews
MICHAEL POLLAK: The Manuscripts and Artefacts of the Synagogue of Kaifeng: Their Peregrinations and Present Whereabouts
LEO GABOW (1916—1998): Jewish Property in Kaifeng
XU XIN: Jewish Identity of the Kaifeng Jews
ZHANG QIANHONG and LI JINGWEN: Some Observations on the Descendants of the Jews in Kaifeng
NATHAN KATZ: The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation
HARTMUT WALRAVENS: Bibliographical Notes on Jews in China
YANG HAIJUN: Die Erforschung der Juden in China (Eighty Years of Research on Jews in China)
... to Shanghai:
FANG JIANCHANG: History of Jews in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Beijing, Tianjin, and Qingdao (1911-1949)
AVRAHAM ALTMANN: Controlling the Jews, Manchukuo Style
ZVIA BOWMAN: Unwilling Collaborators: The Jewish Community of Harbin under the Japanese Occupation 1931-1945
RENA KRASNO: History of Russian Jews in Shanghai
MAISIE MEYER: The Sephardi Jewish Community of Shanghai and the Question of Identity
CHIARA BETTA: Myth and Memory. Chinese Portrayal of Silas Aaron Hardoon, Luo Jialing, and the Aili Garden Between 1924 and 1995
DAVID KRANZLER: Shanghai Refuge: The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai 1938—1949
IRENE EBER: Flight to Shanghai 1938-1939 and Its Larger Context
PAN GUANG: Uniqueness and Generality: The Case of Shanghai in the Annals of Jewish Diaspora
PAUL U. UNSCHULD: Ärzte aus Deutschland und Österreich in der Emigration in Shanghai zwischen 1934 und 1945
GERD KAMINSKI: Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld: Mensch und Mythos
CHANG SHOOU-HUEY: China und Jiddisch. Jiddische Kultur in China - Chinesische Literatur auf Jiddisch;
ALEXANDER KNAPP: The State of Research into Jewish Music in China
FRANÇOISE KREISSLER: Ein Journalist im Exil in Shanghai: Adolph J. Storfer und die Gelbe Post.
Europe, China, and "the Jewish Paradox":
CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Cabbala in China
RITA WIDMAIER: Zur Frage der Juden in China in der Korrespondenz von G.W. Leibniz
MARÍAN GÁLIK: The Old Testament of the Bible in Modern Chinese Literary Criticism and Creative Literature
ZHOU XUN: Youtai: A History of the "Jew" in Modern China
JOËL THORAVAL: Chinese Intellectuals and "the Jewish Paradox"
HUANG LINGYU: Research on Judaism in China
XU XIN: Document: Some Thoughts on Our Policy Toward the Jewish Religion - Including a Discussion of Our Policy Toward the Kaifeng Jews.
General Index with Glossary
Monumenta Serica
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