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Between Empires: Central European Jewish Refugees and Chinese Residents in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1948 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Between Empires: Central European Jewish Refugees and Chinese Residents in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1948 // Kimberly Anne Cheng.
Author:	Cheng, Kimberly Anne,
Description:	1 electronic resource (289 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-05A.
Subject:	Holocaust studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29321934
ISBN:	9798357555151

Between Empires: Central European Jewish Refugees and Chinese Residents in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1948 /
Cheng, Kimberly Anne,

Between Empires: Central European Jewish Refugees and Chinese Residents in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1948 /Kimberly Anne Cheng. - 1 electronic resource (289 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05, Section: A.

During World War II, approximately 18,000 Central European Jewish refugees found refuge in the multiethnic metropolis of Shanghai, China. This dissertation examines the nature of the relationship between Jewish refugees and their Chinese neighbors from 1937-1948. While some scholars have sought to highlight the ways that the Jewish refugee and Chinese populations of Shanghai found common cause, this dissertation argues that most Jewish refugees and Chinese residents of the city were predisposed to treat each other with ambivalence and even skepticism at times. By contextualizing Sino-Jewish relations on the ground within the history of semi-colonialism in China, this research underscores the crucial power dynamics that underlay the vast cultural differences between both populations. Although stateless and poor, refugees still appeared as white foreigners in a city where the whole colonial project rested upon a racial hierarchy that placed local Chinese on the lowest rung. Amid the backdrop of Shanghai's multicultural social landscape, Jewish refugees and Chinese locals both racialized each other along the lines of the preconceived notions they harbored. Neither colonizers nor colonized, Jewish refugees carved out places for themselves within the network of layered colonial spheres that had been established primarily by Europeans after the Opium Wars. Liminal parties within this greater milieu, many Jewish refugees used their European notions of public health, hygiene, labor, and living standards to draw boundaries between themselves and their Chinese neighbors. Jewish refugees even derived certain legal privileges from foreign intervention in China at times, revealing the porousness of Shanghai's colonial institutions. In the end, Sino-Jewish relations in Shanghai both during and after the war remained laden by wartime deprivation and the legacies of whiteness and foreignness in China. By placing Sino-Jewish encounters squarely within the context of semi-colonialism China, this dissertation ultimately seeks to integrate Asia into the growing field of Holocaust geographies, while decentering the Holocaust within the history of Jewish refugee migration during World War II.

English

ISBN: 9798357555151Subjects--Topical Terms:

3174188
Holocaust studies.
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China

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