ISBN:
9780700712496
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (213 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SOAS Centre for near and middle east studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Chinese Perceptions of the Jews' and Judaism : A History of the Youtai
DDC:
305.8924051
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
While prejudice against Jews is a real and ongoing category in Western culture, little attention has been paid to the myths of the Jews' and their impact in countries outside the West. This work draws on a wide variety of source materials from the past two centuries to examine the images of the Jews' as constructed in China. However, the interest here does not lie in the determination of the boundary between the real and fictional aspects of these images. Rather, it lies in the implications associated with the Jew' as an other', which remains a distant mirror in the construction of the self' a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; IIIustrations; 1. Introduction; The 'Jew' as Defined in Modern China; 2. China, Missionaries and 'Jews' 1605-1870; The 'Unknown Jews' of China; The Map of Ricci and the Chinese 'Discovery' of the World; The Entering of the Protestant Missions; Xu Jiyu, Wei Yuan and their Geographies of the World; The 'Eastern Jews'; 3. Encountering and Reinventing the 'Jews' 1870-1915; Journey to the West; The 'Jews' as a 'Historical Race'; The 'Jews' as Inferior; The 'Stateless Jews
Description / Table of Contents:
The 'Jews' as a Victim of the 'White Race'The 'Jews' in Literature; Japan's Impact; The 'Jews' as Nationalists; The 'Jews' as Imperialists; Jewish Merchants in Shanghai; 4. The 'Jews' in the May Fourth Period 1915-1930s; The 'Jew' as 'Old'; The 'Jew' as Spiritual; Yiddish as the 'New'; Jewish Theatre, George Sidney and the Theatre 'Revolution'; Modern Hebrew Poetry and the New Poetry Movement; 5. The 'Jews' and the 'Science of Race' 1915-1949; The 'Jews' as a 'Superior Race; The 'Jews' as the 'Diseased'; The 'Jews' and Eugenics; The 'Jews' as Products of Racial Discrimination
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Chinese Perceptions of Zionism 1915-1949Zionism and the 'Jewish Homeland'; Zionism and the 'Chinese Renaissance; Zionism as 'Imperialism'; Zionists as 'Capitalists'; Zionists as 'Victims of Imperialism and Fascism'; China at the UN and its Attitude towards the Partition of Palestine; Recreation, Restoration and Reconstruction (1937-1945); 7. Anti-Jewish Policy in Japanese Occupied China during the War Period 1937-1945; 8. Epilogue: Old Myths and New Phenomena 1949-1997; Appendices; A. 'The History of the Religion of Moses in China'; B. 'Ghetto - The Jewish Quarter in Rome
Description / Table of Contents:
Selected BibliographyCharacter List; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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