Full Description
Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China focuses on the many extraordinary contacts between East and West in China during the 20th century. Through a collection of short biographies situated in the context of Chinese and Western history, it offers a panoramic view of China as experienced by many different persons of Jewish origins during their sojourn in the Middle Kingdom. The book offers a journey across vast reaches of space and back through time. Our impressions of visits to China have often been biased by sensational journalism, Hollywood films and literary entertainment that have distorted the reality of this vast country. Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China offers the reality of life in twentieth century China through the carefully-researched biographies of a variety of typical and less typical Western visitors to the Middle Kingdom.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Names and Orthography
Introduction: Individuals, Biographies and Lifeworlds
Chapter 1. The Long Established: Jewish Old China Hands
I. Descendants: Jews with Sephardi Roots
II. Russian Jews Originating from the Czarist Empire
Chapter 2. Jewish Travelers: Temporarily and Voluntarily in China
I. Journalists
II. Couriers, Emissaries and Advisors
III. Adventurers and Lone Wolves
IV. Diplomats
V. Research Travelers and Travel Authors
VI. Physicians
VII. Independents and Freelancers
Chapter 3. Refugees Driven from Europe to the Far East
Chapter 4. "Foreign Experts" and Supporters of Mao's Revolution
Endnotes
Bibliography
