Jews in Old China

by Shapiro, Sidney

• ISBN13: 9780781808330
• ISBN10: 0781808332
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Summary

A wealth of information about the conflicts, contributions, adaptation and ultimate assimilation of the Jews in China and introduces the Radanites, the great medieval Jewish mercantile traders, who provided an important link between China and the West.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface to the Expanded Edition	ix
Prologue	xi
PART ONE	1	(188)
A Survey of the Various Religious Sects During the Yuan Dynastry, 1897	3	(4)
Hong Jun
Contacts Between Ancient China and the Jews, 1930	7	(5)
Zhang Xinglang
A Study of Wotuo, 1941	12	(3)
Weng tu-Chien
A Study of the Israelite Religion in Kaifeng, 1920, revised 1980	15	(31)
Chen Yuan
Jews in Ancient China---A Historical Survey, 1953, revised 1983	46	(57)
Pan Guangdan
Glimpses of the Urban Economy of Bianjing, Capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, 1981	103	(15)
Jiang Qingxiang
Xiao Guoliang
Concerning Chinese Jews, 1983	118	(10)
Gao Wangzhi
An San and An Cheng, 1983	128	(11)
Li Jixian
Buddhist Monk or Jewish Rabbi? 1983	139	(4)
Chen Changoi
Jewish Traces in Yangzhou, 1983	143	(16)
Zhu Jiang
Some Observations on the Jews of Kaifeng, 1943	159	(1)
Xu Zonghe
An Ethnic Historian Looks at China's Jews, 1983	160	(7)
Wu Zelin
The Descendants of the Kaifeng Jews, 1980	167	(22)
Wang Yisha
Epilogue	187	(2)
PART TWO	189	(50)
Jews in Yuan Dynasty China	191	(12)
Liu Yingsheng
Jewish Merchants on the Silk Road	203	(14)
Gong Fangzhen
The Jews of Kaifeng: Their Origins, Routes, and Assimilation	217	(22)
Yin Gang
Chronological Table	239	(1)
Bibliography	240	(3)
Index	243