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.
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.
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