No other culture has done that. The Jews offer a lesson that is beneficial to all other people. Now that the Chinese travel, they can know that tradition can survive. Fiction set in Eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries also intrigued Xu. That way of life seemed very exotic to me.
Yiddish culture is very humorous.
Xu has written numerous articles on Jewish literature and culture, including pieces on Saul Bellow, Israeli women's literature and surveys of Jewish communities in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Xu's book on Kaifeng Jews, which he wrote in English, will offer a different perspective than others he has read on the subject, he said. I tried to depict the whole picture and emphasized how they survived and adjusted to the environment. I also wrote about everyday life. About 400 to 500 years ago, there was a thriving Jewish community in Kaifeng, the largest in China.