Jewish wayfarers in modern China : tragedy and splendor / Matthias Messmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messmer, Matthias, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish travelers.

China--Description and travel.

China.

Jewish travelers--China.

Physical Description:

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China: Tragedy and Splendor focuses on the many extraordinary contacts between East and West in China during the twentieth century. Through a collection of short biographies situated in the context of Chinese and Western history, it offers a panoramic view of China as experienced by many different persons of Jewish origins during their sojourn in the Middle Kingdom. The book offers a journey across vast reaches of space and back through time. Our impressions of visits to China have often been biased by sensational journalism, Hollywood films, and literary entertainment, which have distorted the reality of this vast country. Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China offers the reality of life in twentieth-century China through the carefully researched biographies of a variety of typical and less typical Western visitors to the Middle Kingdom. Book jacket.

Contents:

The long established: Jewish old China hands

Jewish travelers: temporarily and voluntarily in China

Refugees driven from Europe to the Far East

"Foreign experts" and supporters of Mao's revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739169384

0739169386

9780739169391

0739169394

OCLC:

744560560