From Kaifeng to Shanghai

From Kaifeng to Shanghai
Author: Roman Malek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351566296

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The collection presents the proceedings of the international colloquium held in Sankt Augustin in 1997 and additional materials. The articles are written in English, German or Chinese (with English abstracts). The volume includes a general index with glossary.

The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam

The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
Author: Maria Jaschok
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780700713028

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This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for survival, and in their crucial contribution to the cause of ethnic/religious minority identity and solidarity. Against the presentation of complex historical developments of women's own site of worship and learning, the authors open out to contemporary problems of sexual politics within the wider society of socialist China and beyond to the history of Islam in all its cultural diversity.

The Jews of Kaifeng, China

The Jews of Kaifeng, China
Author: Xin Xu
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780881257915

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Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 2

Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 2
Author: Barbara Hoster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351672592

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This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin (Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English, German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian’s diverse research interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History, History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today, Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well as the Encounter of Cultures.

Jews in China

Jews in China
Author: Irene Eber
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0271085878

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Irene Eber was one of the foremost authorities on Jews in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—a field that, in contrast to the study of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the Americas, has been critically neglected. This volume gathers fourteen of Eber’s most salient articles and essays on the exchanges between Jewish and Chinese cultures, making available to students, scholars, and general readers a representative sample of the range and depth of her important work in the field of Jews in China. Jews in China delineates the centuries-long, reciprocal dialogue between Jews, Jewish culture, and China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation. The first section of the book sets forth a sweeping overview of the history of Jews in China, beginning in the twelfth century and concluding with a detailed assessment of the two crucial years leading up to the Second World War. The second section examines the translation of Chinese classics into Hebrew and the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Chinese. The third and final section turns to modern literature, bringing together eight essays that underscore the cultural reciprocity that takes place through acts of translation. The centuries-long relationship between Judaism and China is often overlooked in the light of the extensive discourse surrounding European and American Judaism. With this volume, Eber reminds us that we have much to learn from the intersections between Jewish identity and Chinese culture.

Youtai - Presence and Perception of Jews and Judaism in China

Youtai - Presence and Perception of Jews and Judaism in China
Author: Peter Kupfer
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9783631575338

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This volume summarizes the results of a research project organized at Mainz University in Germersheim, Germany. It focused on the Jewish community in Kaifeng in China (12th to 19th century). In recent years, increasing research has been done about the history and culture of the Jews in China, and in the future, more academic interest in all questions connected with it can be expected. Main topics are the perception of Chinese Judaism in European history as well as in Chinese society itself, the self-image of the descendants in Kaifeng and their present status in China, and how China deals with foreign ethnics and religions as part of its own history and identity. These topics were discussed from various interdisciplinary points of view. The authors from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Great Britain, France, and Germany are prominent sino-judaists who present their latest results of research in the light of new facts and approaches.

Chinese Exile

Chinese Exile
Author: Horst Eisfelder
Publisher: Avotaynu Inc
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780966802139

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Biography of authors experience as a Holocaust survivor living in Shanghai and Nanking.

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express
Author: Zhang Henshui
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1997-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0824864263

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In this suspenseful tale of seduction and deception, a wealthy banker is smitten by an alluring young woman while traveling aboard the express train from Beijing to Shanghai. A consummate storyteller and one of the most popular novelists of his day, Zhang Henshui sweeps us on board with them and takes us through train stations and back and forth between first, second, and third class cars, evoking the smells of this microcosm of the urban world. We see what various travelers wear; we hear their conversations; we feel the chill or the warmth of each car; we detect a trace of perfume in one, pickled vegetables and greasy meats in another. Here is popular Chinese fiction at its best. Shanghai Express was considered "entertainment" fiction and was enormously popular in the 1930s. William Lyell’s sparkling translation at last allows an English-reading audience to share in the fun.