Research Catalog

Title

Jewish wayfarers in modern China : tragedy and splendor / Matthias Messmer.

Author

Messmer, Matthias, 1967-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.

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Details

Description

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Jewish travelers > China
• Jewish travelers
• Travel
• Juden
• Reisender
• Flüchtling
• Juden
• Reisender
• Jewish travelers > China
• Jews > China > History
• Jews > China > Biography
• Jewish refugees > China > Shanghai
• China > Description and travel
• China
• China
• China > Description and travel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The long established: Jewish old China hands -- Jewish travelers: temporarily and voluntarily in China -- Refugees driven from Europe to the Far East -- "Foreign experts" and supporters of Mao's revolution.

ISBN

• 9780739169384
• 0739169386
• 9780739169391
• 0739169394

LCCN

• 2011032547
• 40020824214

OCLC

• ocn744560560
• 744560560
• SCSB-14450659

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library