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Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China - Tragedy and Splendor (Hardcover)
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Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China - Tragedy and Splendor (Hardcover)
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Jewish Wayfarers ir n Modern China: Tragedy and Splendor 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. With
their Western talents, skills, desires, hopes and expectations they
tried to master their individual fates. There is the iconoclastic
young woman journalist who enjoys breaking taboos at home in the
USA. There is the swindler, the scoundrel known from novels by Mark
Twain or Charles Dickens. There is the revolutionary, the man of
thought and deed who thinks he knows what the Chinese need better
than the Chinese themselves. There is the poetess loyal to her lost
Chinese lover, the admirer of Chinese culture. There is the artist,
fascinated by the exotic surroundings, portraying them with
archetypes that merge East and West. There is the doctor, anxious
to help. There is the archaeologist, desiring to make a name by
discovering and returning with Chinese treasures. By showing us
these characters in action, working for their own ambition or
survival, employing their talents and previous experience, we find
a distant mirror of our own society.One cannot return in a time
machine to the past, but literature is a sort of virtual time
machine, carrying us to distant periods of the past and exotic
surroundings. The present book offers such a magical journey across
vast reaches of space and back through time. Our impressions of
visits to China have often been biased by sensationalistic
journalism, Hollywood films and literary entertainment that have
distorted the reality of this vast country. In the present book, we
are shown the reality of life in Twentieth Century China for many
Westerners through carefully-researched biographies of a wide
variety of typical and less typical Western visitors to the Middle
Kingdom.
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