The Image of Jews in Contemporary China

James R. Ross, Song Lihong (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9781618114204 (ISBN)

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Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten universities throughout China offer popular Jewish Studies programmes, some with advanced degrees. Yet there are virtually no Jews in China. The Chinese are constructing an identity for a people that the large majority of them will never meet. This edited volume critically examines the image of Jews from the contemporary perspective of ordinary Chinese citizens. It includes chapters on Chinese Jewish Studies programmes, popular Chinese books and blogs about Jews, China’s relations with Israel, and innovative examinations of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng.

Contributors: Moshe Y. Bernstein, She Gangzheng, James Ross, Glenn Timmermans, Xu Xin, Zhou Xun, Chen Yiyi, Fu Youde, Meng Zhenhua, Song Lihong, Zhong Zhiqing

James Rodman Ross is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, former Fulbright lecturer at Nanjing University, and author of Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora (Riverhead, 2000).

Contributors vii Introduction

(James R. Ross)

Perceiving Jews in Modern China

(Zhou Xun)

Images of Jews in Contemporary Books, Blogs and Films

(James R. Ross)

Distinctiveness: A Major Jewish Characteristic

(Fu Youde)

Chinese Policy toward Kaifeng Jews

(Xu Xin)

Sukkot and Mid-Autumn Festivals in Kaifeng: Conundrums at the Crossroads of Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity

(Moshe Y. Bernstein)

Understanding of the Bible among the General Public in Mainland China: A Survey on the “Bullet Curtain” of The Bible

(Meng Zhenhua)

The Changing Image of the State of Israel in People’s Daily during the Cold War

(She Gangzheng)

The Reception of Contemporary Israeli Literature in China

(Zhong Zhiqing)

China’s Relationship with Israel, Opportunities and Challenges: Perspectives from China

(Chen Yiyi)

Holocaust Studies and Holocaust Education in China

(Glenn Timmermans)

Reflections on Chinese Jewish Studies: A Comparative Perspective

(Song Lihong)

Index

Reihe/Serie	Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
Co-Autor	Zhou Xun, Fu Youde, Xu Xin
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781618114204 / 9781618114204
Zustand	Neuware