The Editor: Peter Kupfer, Prof. Dr., head of the Section of Chinese Studies at Mainz University, has carried out several research activities and projects in modern Chinese language and culture and holds a number of international functions in this field. In 2000 he was awarded the Friendship Order of Chinese Language and Culture by the People’s Republic of China.

• Contents: Peter Kupfer: The Perception and Self-Perception of Jewishness in Kaifeng in the Past and Present – Donald Daniel Leslie: Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: Prospects for Research – Pan Guang: Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives – Noam Urbach: What Prevented the Reconstruction of the Chinese Synagogue? Kaifeng Jews between Revival and Obliteration – Zhang Ligang: The Understanding and Attitude of Chinese Society towards the Kaifeng Jews – Maisie J. Meyer: Bagdhdadi Jews, Chinese «Jews» and Chinese – Yin Gang: Between Disintegration and Expansion: A Comparative Retrospection of the Kaifeng Jewish and Muslim Communities – Zhou Xun: The ‘Jews’ in the May Fourth Period – Salomon Wald: Chinese Jews in European Thought – Zhang Qianhong: Comparison between the Jewish Education of Biblical Times and Pre-Qin Confucian Education – Robert Elliot Allinson: Six Arguments for the Primacy of the Proscriptive Formulation of the Golden Rule in the Jewish and Chinese Confucian Ethical Traditions.

The Editor: Peter Kupfer, Prof. Dr., head of the Section of Chinese Studies at Mainz University, has carried out several research activities and projects in modern Chinese language and culture and holds a number of international functions in this field. In 2000 he was awarded the Friendship Order of Chinese Language and Culture by the People’s Republic of China.

• Contents: Peter Kupfer: The Perception and Self-Perception of Jewishness in Kaifeng in the Past and Present – Donald Daniel Leslie: Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: Prospects for Research – Pan Guang: Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives – Noam Urbach: What Prevented the Reconstruction of the Chinese Synagogue? Kaifeng Jews between Revival and Obliteration – Zhang Ligang: The Understanding and Attitude of Chinese Society towards the Kaifeng Jews – Maisie J. Meyer: Bagdhdadi Jews, Chinese «Jews» and Chinese – Yin Gang: Between Disintegration and Expansion: A Comparative Retrospection of the Kaifeng Jewish and Muslim Communities – Zhou Xun: The ‘Jews’ in the May Fourth Period – Salomon Wald: Chinese Jews in European Thought – Zhang Qianhong: Comparison between the Jewish Education of Biblical Times and Pre-Qin Confucian Education – Robert Elliot Allinson: Six Arguments for the Primacy of the Proscriptive Formulation of the Golden Rule in the Jewish and Chinese Confucian Ethical Traditions.

The Editor: Peter Kupfer, Prof. Dr., head of the Section of Chinese Studies at Mainz University, has carried out several research activities and projects in modern Chinese language and culture and holds a number of international functions in this field. In 2000 he was awarded the Friendship Order of Chinese Language and Culture by the People’s Republic of China.

• Contents: Peter Kupfer: The Perception and Self-Perception of Jewishness in Kaifeng in the Past and Present – Donald Daniel Leslie: Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: Prospects for Research – Pan Guang: Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives – Noam Urbach: What Prevented the Reconstruction of the Chinese Synagogue? Kaifeng Jews between Revival and Obliteration – Zhang Ligang: The Understanding and Attitude of Chinese Society towards the Kaifeng Jews – Maisie J. Meyer: Bagdhdadi Jews, Chinese «Jews» and Chinese – Yin Gang: Between Disintegration and Expansion: A Comparative Retrospection of the Kaifeng Jewish and Muslim Communities – Zhou Xun: The ‘Jews’ in the May Fourth Period – Salomon Wald: Chinese Jews in European Thought – Zhang Qianhong: Comparison between the Jewish Education of Biblical Times and Pre-Qin Confucian Education – Robert Elliot Allinson: Six Arguments for the Primacy of the Proscriptive Formulation of the Golden Rule in the Jewish and Chinese Confucian Ethical Traditions.