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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eber, Irene, 1929-2019, author.

Contributor:

Hellerstein, Kathryn, editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.)

Dimyonot: Jews and the cultural imagination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--China--History.

Jews.

Jewish literature.

China.

History.

Jewish literature--Translations into Chinese--History and criticism.

Translating and interpreting--China.

Translating and interpreting.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xx, 256 pages ; 19 cm.

12mo.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Finn, James, -1872. Jews in China.

ISBN:

9780271084961

0271084960

OCLC:

5378701