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Chinese Journal of International Law 2005 4(1):235-256; doi:10.1093/chinesejil/jmi008
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

DEVELOPMENTS & HISTORY

Overland and By Sea: Eight Centuries of the Jewish Presence in China

Irene Eber *

The several Jewish communities discussed are those in Kaifeng and in Shanghai. The presence of the earlier and the later settlers raises several questions. How did the Kaifeng Jews retain their identity as Jews for several centuries while becoming part of Chinese society? Whereas the initial group of arrivals in Shanghai consisted of traders, the twentieth-century groups were refugees. Why were large numbers of Central European Jews able to land in Shanghai when most countries closed their doors to them?

* Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (email: mstruman{at}mscc.huji.ac.il). I thank the Truman Research Institute and the Louis Frieberg Research Fund for their partial support of this research. A Hebrew version of this article appeared in Moreshet Yisrael, Vol. I (November 2004).


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