Jews in China: cultural conversations, changing perceptions

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. Scheres...

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Published in:Dimyonot
Main Author: Eber, Airin 1929-2019 (Author)
Contributors: Hellerstein, Kathryn 1952- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2020]
In: Dimyonot (volume 7)
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Dimyonot volume 7
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Cultural contact / Jews / Cultural exchange
B Jews / China / Cultural relations / Acculturation / Cultural exchange
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Jewish literature Translations into Chinese History and criticism
B Collection of essays
B Jews (China) History
B Translating and interpreting (China)
B Essays
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Summary: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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0271084960