Protected Persons? The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora, the British State, and the Persistence of Empire

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5727412
AutoresSarah Abrevaya Stein (University of Southern California, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen116
Número1
Páginas80-108
Fecha de publicación2011-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/ahr.116.1.80
OpenAlexW2034478964
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas3

MORE THAN THE PRESENCE of some 100 Taoist monks and priests, the performance of Chinese orchestras, the exchange of mourning gifts, the burning of paper figures in celebration of the spirit of the deceased, the kowtowing of visitors before pictures of the family, the draping of the funereal garden in white silk, the arrival of more than 3,000 gifts and 5,000 mourners-more, even, than the astonishing facts of Silas Aaron Hardoon's fortune, prominence, or cosmopolitan history, it was the wax effigy of the dead man with chopsticks in hand at this ostensibly Jewish funeral that riveted the international press. 1 When he died in the summer of 1931, Hardoon was called the richest foreigner in Shanghai, with an estate estimated at $150 million.Like other young, entrepreneurial Baghdadi Jewish men of his generation, Hardoon had made his way to China by way of India in the late nineteenth century

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · China · Diaspora · Empire · Judaism · Sociology · State (computer science · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies