Eastern Encounter (Unveiling the Millennial History of Chinese Jews)

Author: Cai Guiling
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
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A thousand years ago, a group of people from the Jewish nation traveled long distances and endured countless hardships to arrive in China, settling in the Central Plains. What was the fate of these Jews in China? What did China offer the Jews? What did the Jews bring to the Chinese? Two ancient and mysterious peoples, in the vast Central Plains, what kind of story did they unfold?
Around a thousand years ago, a group from this traveled long distances and endured countless hardships to arrive in China, coming to the Central Plains, a region completely different from the deserts and oases, nomadic life in the East. They met another equally in Kaifeng. Let us cross the river of time, along the rugged historical bed, to trace the threads of their generations, to recreate the vicissitudes of the Kaifeng Jews over a thousand years, and to imagine the Eastern journey of the Jewish nation.
This book is divided into nine chapters, mainly including:
Arrival in China, Permanent Residency Granted, Emerging from Nowhere, Comfortable Life, Deep Impact, Ten Repairs of the Synagogue, Twilight Glow, etc.