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Globalization, Translation and Transmission: Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity in Kaifeng, China (Paperback, New edition)
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Globalization, Translation and Transmission: Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity in Kaifeng, China (Paperback, New edition)
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Around the tenth century Jewish merchants from Central Asia arrived
in Kaifeng. Welcomed by the Emperor, they integrated into China's
economy, society and culture. They intermarried with their hosts,
following patrilocal custom with Chinese wives adopting their
husbands' Jewish traditions. In 1163 they built a synagogue, where
the group, numbering 5,000 at its apex in the sixteenth century,
continued to conduct Jewish rituals for seven centuries. Despite
the loss of this building in 1849 by flooding, the families and
clans of Jewish descent continued to recall their ancestral
identity and preserved a few basic customs. In 1978 with the
"opening-up" of China, foreign visitors to Kaifeng generated both a
renewed interest in the group and a communal revival of its Jewish
identification. This cultural revival has created both
opportunities and risks, due largely to an ambivalent Chinese
policy denying ethnic status to the Kaifeng Jews while allowing
them limited cultural expression. This book explores how a small
minority was able to transmit its blend of Sino-Judaic culture over
the centuries and how their descendants are striving to revitalise
that cultural heritage today.
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