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Title: | Jewish past and colonial Shanghai: trade, treaty-port, and transitive modernity |
Author(s): | Gong, Jin |
Director of Research: | Shao, Dan |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Shao, Dan |
Doctoral Committee Member(s): | Fu, Poshek; Avrutin, Eugene; Chow, Kai-Wing |
Department / Program: | E Asian Languages & Cultures |
Discipline: | E Asian Languages & Cultures |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Sephardic Jews
Treaty-port Shanghai Colonial Encounters |
Abstract: | This dissertation explores the transnational and colonial encounters of Sephardic Jews and Chinese in treaty-port Shanghai by examining 1) the Jewish networks of capital, goods, and market; 2) Jewish elites and their political activism; 3) transnational legal and political status of Sephardic Jewish elites in Shanghai and 4) Jewish cultural heritage in Shanghai. A central argument of this work is that as an expatriate business community living in treaty-port Shanghai, Sephardic Jews took advantage of the British colonial system to achieve wealth and at the same time established extensive contacts with the Chinese in Shanghai. As a result, they deeply influenced Shanghai’s economic, political and social institutions and rhythms of life. Using both Chinese and English archival resources, a wide range of Chinese and English language newspapers and periodicals, this study contributes new materials and analyses to three areas of scholarly research: the modern history of Shanghai, Jewish diaspora in port-cities, and colonial studies in China. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is twofold: to document the economic/social encounters of Jews and Chinese in a colonial context and to examine the urbanization and modernization process of Shanghai itself as a result of this encounter. |
Issue Date: | 2016-07-15 |
Type: | Text |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/92898 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2016 Jin Gong |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2016-11-10 2018-11-11 |
Date Deposited: | 2016-08 |
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