In the past thirty years the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered
scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural
exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of
texts and translations images and ideas has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and
prepared for a global inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field
covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters the
intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a
truly global and inclusive world literature the biographies of prominent figures in
Chinese-Jewish connections the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the
fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed with a special emphasis
on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the
Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.
