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Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City
02 Aug 2012-
TL;DR: The authors discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews, focusing on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Abstract: The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world.
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TL;DR: Since 2015, the strong resentment in Chinese social media against international immigration triggered by the European migrant crisis has been noticed, and in many cases harshly criticised, by forei....
Abstract: Since 2015, the strong resentment in Chinese social media against international immigration triggered by the European migrant crisis has been noticed, and in many cases harshly criticised, by forei...
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the internment at La Salle and the Tribunal Process of Jewish Internees in Hong Kong and the role of the JRS in this process.
Abstract: ........................................................................................................................................ iii Lay Summary ................................................................................................................................ v Preface ........................................................................................................................................... vi Table of Content .......................................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................... viii Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2: Charity and the Perception of Jewish-ness ........................................................... 12 2.1 Responses and Reactions to Jewish Refugees ................................................................. 14 2.2 Perceiving Jewish-ness and Communal Anxieties ......................................................... 18 Chapter 3: Internment at La Salle ............................................................................................ 25 3.1 Determining Identities: the Passports ............................................................................. 26 3.2 Internment at La Salle and the Tribunal Process .......................................................... 29 3.3 The Internment Records ................................................................................................... 32 3.4 Jewish Internees and the JRS .......................................................................................... 35 3.5 The Curious Case of Arthur Israel Machol .................................................................... 40 Chapter 4: Expulsion and Exceptions: Re-Perceiving German-ness ..................................... 46 4.1 Panic in Hong Kong: Giving the Order .......................................................................... 49 4.2 Comprehending Deportation: Public Perception of Aliens ........................................... 53 4.3 The Role of the JRS ........................................................................................................... 57 4.4 Exemptions from Deportation: A Question of Utility .................................................... 60 Chapter 5: Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 66 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................ 71
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TL;DR: The authors proposed a joint research project on China and Ashkenazi Jewry, with the goal of jointly studying the relationship between the two cultures and their respective cultures, and the results showed that the project was successful.
Abstract: When Kathryn Hellerstein of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that we launch a joint research project on China and Ashkenazi Jewry two years ago, I gladly accepted the idea, as I saw in it a...
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...However, the picture is less rosy in the eyes of Western scholars who usually stress that Shanghai was under Japanese occupation and, more recently, increasingly perceive what happened in the Ghetto of Shanghai as a sort of repercussion of the Holocaust in the Far East (Eber 2012; Hochstadt 2012)....
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...As is well-known, China is the only country in the Far East in which Jews have continuously lived for approximately a millennium....
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TL;DR: In 1945, tens of thousands of Russian and Russian-speaking Jewish refugees were in China. Many had come decades earlier, following the Bolshevik revolution, the rout of anti-Bolshevik armies in 191...
Abstract: In 1945, tens of thousands of Russian and Russian-speaking Jewish refugees were in China. Many had come decades earlier, following the Bolshevik revolution, the rout of anti-Bolshevik armies in 191...
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TL;DR: The authors explored the history of early-modern and modern China, from the seventeenth century to the present, examining the rise and fall of China's last empire, the emergence of a modern nation-state, the sources and development of revolution, and the implications of complex social, political, cultural, and economic transformations in the People's Republic of China.
Abstract: This course explores the history of early-modern and modern China, from the seventeenth century to the present. We will examine the rise and fall of China’s last empire, the emergence of a modern nation-state, the sources and development of revolution, and the implications of complex social, political, cultural, and economic transformations in the People’s Republic of China. Course materials include scholarly monographs, a memoir, primary sources, and visual and material artifacts that offer diverse perspectives. We will meet twice a week for a combination of lectures, discussion, and viewing of visual texts.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the transformation of the perception of the Mandchourie comme frontiere indifferenciee in a region geographique particuliere a l'epoque Qing.
Abstract: L'A. examine la transformation de la perception de la Mandchourie comme frontiere indifferenciee en une region geographique particuliere a l'epoque Qing. Mettant en evidence l'imaginaire geographique et les differentes approches de la dynastie Qing par rapport a cette zone frontaliere, il montre comment les differents points de vue adoptes ont genere une identite politique et geographique specifique pour cette region. Soutenant que cette invention de la Mandchourie, en tant que lieu, s'est operee des le 17 eme siecle, le pouvoir chinois mandchou identifiant ce territoire a la terre natale de la dynastie Qing, il explore, apres une introduction sur les ambiguites de la terminologie geographique, quatre moments historiques de ce processus : les visites imperiales ritualisees des Qing en territoire mandchou ; la description de la Mandchourie dans l'Ode a Mukden, poeme de l'empereur Qianlong ; la definition du statut administratif du territoire ; la cartographie. En conclusion, l'A. propose quelques reflexions sur l'instrumentalisation politique de la geographie en Asie et sur la relation entre l'identite spatiale des Qing et de la Chine moderne.
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TL;DR: The unequal treaty system was set up in China at a time when the Chinese common people did not participate in a national political life as discussed by the authors, and the Ch'ing regime was primarily concerned to retain the loyalty of the Chinese landlord-scholar ruling class and to suppress any disorder or anti-dynastic rebellion that might arise among the rural populace.
Abstract: PERSPECTIVES ON THE TREATY SYSTEM The unequal treaty system was set up in China at a time when the Chinese common people did not participate in a national political life. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century they were still schooled in the traditional ways of Confucian culturalism: government was an affair of the emperor and his officials, supported by the local elite. A modern type of nationalism received little expression under this old order. Instead, the Ch'ing regime was primarily concerned to retain the loyalty of the Chinese landlord-scholar ruling class and with its help to suppress any disorder or anti-dynastic rebellion that might arise among the rural populace. In this context the pacification of British rebels on the seacoast was at first a marginal, relatively minor problem. The Ch'ing aim in the late 1830s had been simply to stop an evil, the Anglo-Indo-Chinese opium trade. This trade, constantly supplied by the British government opium manufacture in India, was to have a life of more than a century, until given up in 1917. The most long-continued and systematic international crime of modern times, it provided the life-blood of the early British invasion of China. For the first war the leading opium traders not only helped Palmerston work out the aims and the strategy, they also supplied some of the wherewithal: opium vessels leased to the fleet, captains lent as pilots and other staff as translators, hospitality always available as well as advice and the latest intelligence, and silver from opium sales exchanged for bills on London to meet the army and navy expenditures.
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