Introduction / Jordan Paper and Anson H. Laytner -- Part I. Past -- Radhanites, Chinese Jews, and the Silk Road of the steppes / Nigel Thomas -- Eight centuries in the Chinese diaspora : the Jews of Kaifeng / Erik Zürcher -- Kaifeng Jews : sinification and the persistence of identity and history / Irene Eber -- The Confucianization of the Chinese Jews : interpretations of the Kaifeng stelae inscriptions / Andrew H. Plaks -- The Old Testament and Biblical figures in Chinese sources / Donald Daniel Leslie -- The issue of the Jewishness of Chinese Jewish magistrates / Jordan Paper -- Zhao Yingcheng from fact to fiction : the story of "The Great Advisor" / Moshe Yehuda Bernstein -- Part II. Present -- A history of early Jewish interactions with the Kaifeng Jews / Alex Bender -- Delving into the Israelite religion of Kaifeng : the patriotic scholar Shi Jingxun and his study of the origins of the plucking the Sinews Sect of Henan / Xianyi Kong -- Identity discourse and the Chinese Jewish descendants / Mathew A. Eckstein -- Messianic Zionism, settler colonialism, and the lost Jews of Kaifeng / Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi -- Between survival and revival : the impact of contemporary Western Jewish contact on Kaifeng Jewish identity / Anson H. Laytner -- Chronology.

EUCHINA note: Erik Zürcher (1928-2008), “Eight centuries in the Chinese diaspora: the Jews of Kaifeng”, pp. 25-38 (without footnotes and bibliography):

p. 38 n.1 (the only footnote): “Text of a lecture delivered before the Asiatic Society of Japan, Tokyo, May 25, 1995. Originally published in Sino-Judaica: Occasional papers of the Sino-Judaic Institute 3 (2000), pp. 11-21. Reprinted by permission of the Sino-Judaic Institute. Because it was an oral presentation, the editors have slightly modified the language of the article to reflect the appearance in a formal anthology.”
​For a summary (of the lecture) compiled by Hugh Wilkinson, see The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin, no. 7 (Sept. 1995), an adapted version of which can be consulted on http://www.asjapan.org/web.php/lectures/1995/05s.
The same lecture (shortened) Zürcher gave in Dutch on 12 Dec. 1994 (Amsterdam, KNAW), the full version of which (including footnotes [1-25] and a bibliography of 25 items, missing in the 2017 publication) was published as In de uiterste diaspora: de Joden van Kaifeng (20 p., ISBN 978-0444857893; Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeling Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, deel 58, No. 2, pp. 65-79).

For a kind of review, see the introduction pp. vii-xix (by the editors, Laytner and Paper), p. xi / xii:

"In his article included in this anthology, Zürcher’s expertise with the early Christian missions is highlighted in his discussion of the early contacts between the Kaifeng Jews and the Jesuit missionaries. In this discussion, he points to the Jesuit participation in the offerings to Confucius in the wenmiao (Temple of Civil Culture), which they justified by asserting that Confucianism was not a religion in the sense of Christianity. Jordan Paper’s article in this anthology focuses on the same problem in understanding the participation of Jewish literati in these same rituals. Although an expert on Chinese Buddhism and Christianity in China, Zürcher’s knowledge of Judaism is comparatively weak. Among several examples, he considers the presence of lion images in the Kaifeng synagogue an anomaly and hints that they were due to Chinese Buddhist influence, whereas it is common in synagogues worldwide, and he does not understand when tefillin are worn. But these few lapses do not lessen the importance of his presentation of the earliest contacts of the Kaifeng Jews with Christianity and his learned analysis of the survival of the Kaifeng Jews over so many centuries. Zürcher’s analysis concurs with Eber’s article in this anthology and the view of the editors, as seen tangentially in the article by Paper. This viewpoint is in contradistinction to most theories that assimilation led to the demise of Judaism in China, forgetting that assimilation took place many centuries before its heyday, let alone its collapse. It is the synthesis of Judaism and Chinese culture that led to Chinese Judaism in the fullest sense of the compound term and its great success in China."

ROMAN MALEK, Intercultural encounters: From Kaifeng ... to Shanghai. Jews in China. An Introduction. From Kaifeng ... : HERBERT FRANKE: Der Weg nach Osten. Jüdische Niederlassungen im Alten China (The Way Eastward. Jewish Settlements in Old China) — DONALD DANIEL LESLIE: Integration, Assimilation, and Survival of Minorities in China: The Case of Kaifeng Jews — MICHAEL POLLAK: The Manuscripts and Artifacts of the Synagogue of Kaifeng: Their Peregrinations and Present Whereabouts — LEO GABOW (1916—1998): Jewish Property in Kaifeng — XU XIN: Jewish Identity of the Kaifeng Jews — ZHANG QIANHONG 張倩紅 and LI JINGWEN 李景文: 關於開封猶太後裔的幾個問題 (Some Observations on the Descendants of the Jews in Kaifeng) — NATHAN KATZ: The Judaisms of Kaifeng and Cochin: Parallel and Divergent Styles of Religious Acculturation — HARTMUT WALRAVENS: Bibliographical Notes on Jews in China — YANG HAIJUN: Die Erforschung der Juden in China (Eighty Years of Research on Jews in China)
... to Shanghai: FANG JIANCHANG 房建昌: 內蒙古, 遼寧, 北京, 天津及青島猶太人史 (1911-1949年) (History of Jews in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Beijing, Tianjin, and Qingdao (1911—1949) — AVRAHAM ALTMANN: Controlling the Jews, Manchukuo Style — ZVIA BOWMAN: Unwilling Collaborators: The Jewish Community of Harbin under the Japanese Occupation 1931-1945 — RENA KRASNO: History of Russian Jews in Shanghai — MAISIE MEYER: The Sephardi Jewish Community of Shanghai and the Question of Identity — CHIARA BETTA: Myth and Memory: Chinese Portrayal of Silas Aaron Hardoon, Luo Jialing, and the Aili Garden Between 1924 and 1995 — DAVID KRANZLER: Shanghai Refuge: The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai 1938-1949 — IRENE EBER: Flight to Shanghai 1938-1939 and Its Larger Context — PAN GUANG: Uniqueness and Generality: The Case of Shanghai in the Annals of Jewish Diaspora — PAUL U. UNSCHULD: Ärzte aus Deutschland und Österreich in der Emigration in Shanghai zwischen 1934 und 1945 — GERD KAMINSKI: Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld: Mensch und Mythos — CHANG SHOOU-HUEY: China und Jiddisch: Jiddische Kultur in China — Chinesische Literatur auf Jiddisch -- ALEXANDER KNAPP: The State of Research into Jewish Music in China — FRANÇOISE KREISSLER: Ein Journalist im Exil in Shanghai: Adolph J. Storfer und die Gelbe Post.
Europe, China, and "the Jewish Paradox": CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Cabbala in China — RITA WIDMAIER: Zur Frage der Juden in China in der Korrespondenz von G.W. Leibniz — MARÍAN GÁLIK: The Old Testament of the Bible in Modern Chinese Literary Criticism and Creative Literature — ZHOU XUN: Youtai: A History of the "Jew" in Modern China — JOËL THORAVAL: Chinese Intellectuals and "the Jewish Paradox" — HUANG LINGYU: Research on Judaism in China — XU XIN: Document: Some Thoughts on Our Policy Toward the Jewish Religion — Including a Discussion of Our Policy Toward the Kaifeng Jews. General Index with Glossary.

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