A recent book on Jews in China

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China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters

Contents:



I The Bible in China

1. Irene Eber - From Rags to Riches: Joseph and His Family

2. Fu Xiaowei and Wang Yi - Why Is Having No Posterity the Worst Unfilial Thing? A Comparison of Mencius 4A:26 and Genesis 38

3. Cao Jian - The Impact of Ancient Israelite Prophets on Modern Chinese Intellectuals

4. Zhong Zhiqing - Reading the Song of Songs in Jewish and Chinese Tradition

5. Liu Yan - The Transcultural Characteristics of the Chinese Bible Translated by S. I. J. Schereschewsky (1831-1906): A Case Study of the Song of Songs

II Jews in Modern China

6. Xu Xin - Jewish Communities and Modern China: Encounters of Modern Civilizations

7. Ai Rengui - When the Muscular Jews Came to the Far East: Jewish Sports and Physical Culture in Modern China, 1912-1949

8. Wang Jian - Tracking the Exact Number of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

9. Maisie Meyer - The Global Reach of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews

10. Nancy Berliner - Jewish Refugee Artists in Shanghai: Visual Legacies of Traumatic Moments and Cultural Encounters

11. Yang Meng - Drama in Wartime Shanghai

12. Marc B. Shapiro - The Mir Yeshiva and Its Shanghai Sojourn

13. Samuel Heilman - Chabad Outreach on the Jewish Frontier: The Case of China

III Jews and Chinese

14. Kathryn Hellerstein - Yiddish Translations of Chinese Poetry and Theater in 1920s New York

15. Bao Anruo - Enemy or Friend: The Image of China in Yiddish Newspapers during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

16. Zhang Ping - To Speak or Not to Speak: Hanoch Levin’s Suitcase Packers and Cao Yu’s Peking Man in Light of Cross-Textual Dialogue

17. Li Dong - Teaching American Jewish Literature to Chinese College Students: Anzia Yezierska’s “Children of Loneliness” as a Case Study

18. Rebecca Kobrin - Chinese and Ashkenazic Encounters in the American Immigration Regime: Max J. Kohler, Immigration Legal Practice, and the Chinese Exclusion Act

19. Song Lihong - A Homeless Stranger Everywhere: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist