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Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City
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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.read more
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"An Uncertain Life in Another World": German and Austrian Jewish Refugee Life in Shanghai, 1938-1950
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Stopped in flight: Shanghai and the Polish Jewish refugees of 1941
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Toward a History of the Chinese Press in the Republican Period
TL;DR: For instance, this article argued that the creation of a new politically radical press at the turn of the century created a mediating public space in Habermasian terms that made possible the 1911 Revolution and, more recently, that press liberalization led to the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989.
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Away from Nanking Road: Small Stores and Neighborhood Life in Modern Shanghai
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people in Shanghai and how the common people continued to live their everyday lives is most relevant to the question of the impact of modernity (or of the West) upon urban China.
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The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere
TL;DR: The last few years have seen lively international sinological and domestic Chinese debates oDn the structure and development of the Chinese public sphere as mentioned in this paper, and the international discussion has been largely analytical in orientation, prompted by developments in late Qing social history research and the new availability in English and French of Habermas seminal study.
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Reconstructing the vanished musical life of the shanghai jewish diaspora: A report
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use rare ephemera and other documents to reconstruct a now vanished musical world, assembling evidence of actual musical events, their purposes, participants and repertoire, observing the many and varied ways in which music functioned as a (subjective) marker of cultural identity within a self-enclosed cultural enclave.
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The fugu plan : the untold story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II
Marvin Tokayer,Mary Swartz +1 more
TL;DR: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as mentioned in this paperugu is a highly poisonous blowfish that is used as a food in Japan, and is considered an exquisite delicacy. If it is not prepared carefully, however, its poison can kill a person.