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Jews in China : cultural conversations, changing perceptions / Irene Eber ; edited with an introduction by Kathryn Hellerstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.)Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271085876
  • 0271085878
  • 9780271085852
  • 0271085851
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jews in China.DDC classification:
  • 951/.004924 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.C5 E235 2020
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Overland and by sea : eight centuries of the Jewish presence in China -- Chinese Jews and Jews in China, Kaifeng-Shanghai -- Flight to Shanghai : 1938-1939 and its larger context -- A critical survey of classical Chinese literary works in Hebrew -- The Peking Translating Committee and S.I.J. Schereschewsky's Old Testament -- Translating the ancestors : S.I.J. Schereschewsky's 1875 Chinese version of Genesis -- Bridges across cultures : China in Yiddish poetry -- Sholem Aleichem in China -- Translation literature in modern China : the Yiddish author and his tale -- Meylekh Ravitch in China : a travelogue of 1935 -- The critique of western Judaism in The castle and its transposition in two Chinese translations -- Martin Buber and Chinese thought -- Chinese and Jews : mutual perceptions in literary and related sources -- Learning the other : Chinese studies in Israel and Jewish studied in China.
Summary: "A collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overland and by sea : eight centuries of the Jewish presence in China -- Chinese Jews and Jews in China, Kaifeng-Shanghai -- Flight to Shanghai : 1938-1939 and its larger context -- A critical survey of classical Chinese literary works in Hebrew -- The Peking Translating Committee and S.I.J. Schereschewsky's Old Testament -- Translating the ancestors : S.I.J. Schereschewsky's 1875 Chinese version of Genesis -- Bridges across cultures : China in Yiddish poetry -- Sholem Aleichem in China -- Translation literature in modern China : the Yiddish author and his tale -- Meylekh Ravitch in China : a travelogue of 1935 -- The critique of western Judaism in The castle and its transposition in two Chinese translations -- Martin Buber and Chinese thought -- Chinese and Jews : mutual perceptions in literary and related sources -- Learning the other : Chinese studies in Israel and Jewish studied in China.

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

Print version record.