The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng : a millennium of adaptation and endurance /: a millennium of adaptation and endurance. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anson H. Laytner and Jordan Paper.
• Editors: Laytner, Anson; Paper, Jordan D
• Contents: Introduction, <span style="font-style:italic;">Jordan Paper and Anson Laytner ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I: Past ; Chapter 1: Radhanites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the Steppes, <span style="font-style:italic;">Nigel Thomas ; Chapter 2: Eight Centuries in the Chinese Diaspora: The Jews of Kaifeng, <span style="font-style:italic;">Erik Zürcher ; Chapter 3: Kaifeng Jews: Sinification and the Persistence of Identity and History, <span style="font-style:italic;">Irene Eber ; Chapter 4: The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews: Interpretations of the Kaifeng Stelae Inscriptions, <span style="font-style:italic;">Andrew H. Plaks ; Chapter 5: The Old Testament and Biblical Figures in Chinese Sources, <span style="font-style:italic;">Donald Daniel Leslie ; Chapter 6: The Issue of the Jewishness of Chinese Jewish Magistrates, <span style="font-style:italic;">Jordan Paper ; Chapter 7: Zhao Yingcheng from Fact to Fiction: The Story of “The Great Advisor, ” <span style="font-style:italic;">Moshe Yehuda Bernstein ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: Present ; Chapter 8: A History of Early Jewish Interactions with the Kaifeng Jews, <span style="font-style:italic;">Alex Bender ; Chapter 9: Delving into the Israelite Religion of Kaifeng: The Patriotic Scholar Shi Jingxun and his Study of the Origins of the Plucking the Sinews Sect of Henan, <span style="font-style:italic;">Xianyi Kong ; Chapter 10: Identity Discourse and the Chinese Jewish Descendants, <span style="font-style:italic;">Mathew Eckstein ; Chapter 11: Messianic Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Lost Jews of Kaifeng, <span style="font-style:italic;">Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi ; Chapter 12: Between Survival and Revival: The Impact of Contemporary Western Jewish Contact on Kaifeng Jewish Identity, <span style="font-style:italic;">Anson Laytner
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.892405118; Jews -- China -- Kaifeng Xian -- History; Jews -- China -- Kaifeng Xian -- Social life and customs; Jews -- China -- Kaifeng Xian -- Identity; Kaifeng Xian (China) -- Ethnic relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498550277
• Related ISBNs: 9781498550260
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