Final project

This is the link to my final project:

http://hui-in-ningxia.blogspot.com/

Enjoy~~~~

Jews in China

It has been such an eye-opener to see many religions in China being unveiled throughout the course this year. At the beginning of the year, the only religion that I knew to exist in China was Buddhism because this is the only religion that I hear of and witnessed people practicing. Then, I learned that in China there were religions such as Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism, Islam and now Judaism. Evidences can be found to prove that Jewish settlements in China began as early as the 9th century. This is fascinating because China was a country entirely different from the rest of the world at that time, yet people were still able to unite and live together. It was only by the Silk Roads that connected the east to the west together so that people of various backgrounds could travel and assimilate into other’s culture. It would intriguing to research about how the Jews in Kaifang assimilated into the Chinese culture, were they similar to the Hui, or Uighur. Did they even assimilate into the Chinese culture? If not, then how did the Chinese socially accept them?

This is a video about a Chinese born Jewish female talking about her life. She went Israel to learn Hebrew so that she could to help translate Jewish scriptures into Chinese for the Kaifang community. This is a way of maintaining the Jewish community in China!