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Jews in China : Cultural Conversations, Changing Perceptions / Irene Eber ; Kathryn Hellerstein, editor, writer of introduction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eber, Irene, 1929-2019, author.
- Series:
- Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Translating and interpreting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 256 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Pennsylvania : Penn State University Press, 2020.
- 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:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-271-08585-1
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