Irene Eber Livres

A compilation of biographical accounts from Shanghai's Baghdadi Jewish society offers insights into a remarkable community that lived through the crossroads of China's 20th-century history. Using previously unseen archival material, Meyer documents the rise and fall of larger-than-life personalities who witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Occupation of Shanghai and the Communists' rise to power. Photographs illustrate the lives of these people and the magnificent, cosmopolitan city they called home.

Wilhelm frequently wrote & lectured on the Book of Changes, supplying guidelines to its ideas & ways of thinking. Collected here are four lectures he gave between 1926 & 1929. The lectures are significant not only for what they reveal about Chinese tradition & culture, but also for their reflections of the scholarly & cultural milieu prevalent in Germany during that time.

A collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural translation. číst celé